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44k :?':--- ' 4 ': ::: '''' ' :' 1 ' 1 ':::':'': :1-r :''' ' ''" A :': 4 l' s i: '''':'''::': ::::-- : ': - -- yyk4---:v::-:- Melville Jacoby noted war correspondent who was killed In plane accident at southwest Pacific lbase is shown with his wife a former Utah girl in the orient The' accident also took the life of Brigadier General Harold IL George The Tribune Friday morning inadvertently publower lished a picture of Brigadier General Harold L George as that of Brigadier General --Harold H George 4 Japa- week in waters Jap-dominat- ed Every Mother's Day Card is of excellent design and qual- ty Appropriate gifts at Pembroke's for Mother's Day—at prices as low as $100 ' 4 " ' - ships and men was being concentrated in the mandated island area and where the enemy has been building up naval and air bases for several years This force was understood to be gathering in the Marshall islands center of which is Jaluit — 2096 miles from Pearl Harbor 1540 miles from Samoa and about 1500 miles from New Caledonia The actual direction of attack therefore Might be against any one of three vital points guarding the route or possibly against all of therm and others in between In any such campaign the Japanese despite their numerous losses in overrunning the Philipe pines Hong Kong and the Dutch Indies would be able to bring up a tremendous force Although about 220 Jap ships of all types have been sunk or damaged their main fleet strength is believed hardly to have been touched Recent Allied Moves Preliminaries of a life and death etruggie to keep open the route to Australia have not been one sided by any means Recent moves by the allied high command have rnade this record: 1 A separate naval command has been ordered set up in New : Zealand under Vice Admiral Rob- eft L Ghormley recently American naval observer in London Functioning under the' general supervision of Admiral Chester W Nimitz Pacific fleet commander Ghormley 6pparently will have direct charge of operations in a large section of the south-centrPacific 2 United States troops moved Into New Caledonia to assist the Free French forces in protecting their island against Japanese aggression Loss of :New Caledonia to the enemy would give him an excellently located base from which to slash at shipping between New Zealand and Australia ' 3 - A task force of at least one United States aircraft carrier cruisers and destroyers was reported two months ago to have ventured west of the Gilbert islands—deep ' i - rall'"- 'ft ' o 7 1:4 An- II 44 i ' a- ' : 1- GENERAL MACARTHUR'S MELHEADQUARTERS BOURNE May 1—The destruction of 33 more Japanese planes in the blazing air war northeast of Australia was announced Friday and military quarters said a showdown Od 4 i : Ci t 1 1 ' c'' it --1 t a' - ''': ' 'A Statd Australi- -S -' Al 14 4 '' up h FOCEE your i e(I 4e-- -- ! 40001'0--' te00 ' II ' e to me bbbbb tI t-- i I I '''cfr"(4 It - ' ' w prepared vlY dv ain terhe delicious ser e to Dire family graciously Suny bring ttootn on 125 and ' rirora 12 noon ' 44Netlifj---- Dining a- ) ' Mel-:vil- and enestruggle between-allie- d my advanced forces might be near at hand "The Japanese definitely have reinforced their position's to the northeast of AustrdMi" Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Blarney commander in chief of the allied land forces said "and increased enemy activity means he has some further plan "It might be an attempt to seize our outposts or it might be an attempt to cut our supply line from America" Bomb Grounded Planes United Australian airmen continued their Herculean efforts to shatter the 'Japanese concentrations before they have a chance to go into action They 30 bombed and machine-gunne- d Japanese planes lined up at the New Guinea base of Lae Thursday a communique disclosed" and shot down three enemy fighters in a Salaraid on near-b- y shattering maua The newraids hammered home with only slight allied losses boosted the two-da- y bag of the an-American air force to 53 Japanese planes 20 of which were destroyed or badly damaged the day before at Lae across the narrow finger of southeastern New Guinea from Port Moresby Score Direct Hits Striking at Lae for the third straight day the united nations planes strung their bombs neatly down the line of 30 enemy planes on the ground scoring direct hits and kindling large fires which completed the havoc wrought by General Douglas the explosions deMacArthur's headquarters scribed the raid as a: "brilliant" exploit At Salamaua a score of miles to the south on the Huon gulf the raiders smashed at ground installations and downed three Japanese zero fighters seeking vainly to thwart the attack Fighting back eight Japanese bombers with an escort of zeros made the first raid of the war on the advanced allied airdrome on Horne island a small base off Cape York the northernmost tip of Australia Damage was negligible the communique said Sunday De 111e - t - HEADQUARTERS Aus tr a ha May 1—An official announcement revealed Friday that Brigadier General Harold H George of the United States air corps and Jacoby correspondent for Time and Life magazines were killed in a ground accident at an advance airfield when a- - fighter plane taking off went out of control and crashed into a party about to board another plane More than 30 American British and Australian correspondents attended Jacoby's funeral this afternoon as well as officers of the United States army who had known Mr Jacoby In various theaters of war The service at a crematorium was conducted by L Twigg Paterson of the Christian Science church who praised Jacoby's integrity kindness nobility of character and devotion to duty It was announced that General George would have a military funeral on a date not yetfixed It is expected that General Douglas MacArthur will attend — e By Preston Grover NEW DELHI May 1 what may in Burma—and the sit— uation looked dark Friday—allied military men are determined to keep open the supply lines to China and to maintain communications vital to a unified war effort The fall of Lashio announced Thursday by the Chineee complicated the situation for establishment of a Japanese air base there would endanger operation of the big American freight planes now carrying war materials into China from India Rugged Terrain Mi1itar3r- - quarters 'expressed hope the rugged terrain now lying In the path of the Japanese—the most severe the invaders have yet faced in Burma—may delay their progress toward India's northeast frontier until the arrival f the heavy seasonal rainse which are operaexpected to halt large-scaltions within a few weeks The possibility that all Burma may be lost however Is clearly recognized and plans are being laid accordingly At present the Americans have taken on the bulk of the work of ferrying supplies to China and the Burma front because they have the big freight planes necessary The number of planes now on the job—and the number to be added in coming months—is of course a military secret Nevertheless it can be said the scope of the operations has stirred the admiration of Indian onlookers Work on Road The British meanwhile have been working under great difficulties on the road from India to China Already supplies are beginning to get through by pack animals and light truck—a journey of approximately 400 miles over some of the world's most rugged mountains The work of the American transport service is being ably supplemented by the "Flying Tigers" of the American volunteer corps who already have scored many victories over the Japanese in Burma Mrs Jacoby widow of the correspondent iis the former Anna Lee Whitmore of P4ce Utah She became known in Hollywood Cal as a motion picture scenario writer prior to leaving for the' Orient several months ago 4 Secrecy Covers China Supply Line ' ' May 1 UP— President Roosevelt classified as a military secret Friday the steps which would be taken to keep supplies going to China now that the Japanese have seized Lashio the southern terminus of pie Burma road But he to15t a press conference this coming along all right WASHINGTON matVs Index to Top War News CHUNGKING—Japs advance up Burma road to within 50 miles of China's Yunnan province and reach outskirts of Mandalay—Story page 1 column 7 LONDON —' Explosion wipes out gas and explosives factory in north Belgium killing 250 sab- aspected—Story page 1 column Peva Pteers Room t Suilly viittotori io c I 04 - :rmt Eirs - A L21 I - — --- ' - : It - 4 BERN — Hitler and Mussolini plan reinforcements on Russian front and take steps to tighten up discipline in both Germany and Italy—Story page 1 column 5 MELBOURNE — Allied aircraft destroy 33 more Jap planes in air war northeast of Australia—Story page 2 column 2 LONDON — RAF continues contiattack against nazi-hel- d nental coast as word comes from neutral sources that Germans wish truce in aerial warfare— Story page 1 column 4 XUJBYSIIEV — Russiana say nazi spring offensive plans have been smashed claim sinking of German battleship — Story page l column 6 - ' or ome ' w non-Europe- an ot Torpedo Sinks ly Leaders Freight Ship Eye off East Coast For Volunteers 18-19-A- LEWES Del May 1 (H)—Blasta single submarine torpedo a small freighter sank within five minutes on the Atlantic coast Tuesday and apparently carried six men to their deaths the Fourth naval district announced Friday of the crew of 43 Thirty-seve- n including the master were rescued by a navy craft after drifting two hours in a lifeboat The survivors were landed here four suffering front minor injuries chief offiThe ship's cer said the underseas raider attacked without warning about 9:30 ed by a m Some of the missing were believed carried under by suction - Others were "killed below" ship when the torpedo crashed into the starboard side called to the men to jump" the chief officer said "At first they were afraid to But when they saw we were going down they leaped just in time" Four including the chief officer managed to launch a lifeboat and picked up other survivors from the water The navy said the ship was four hours out of an Atlantic coast port "that is 1943 to say 18 months to two years after Pearl Harbor" Army Confers Jap Advance DSC oil 101 Nov Perils Luzon Heroes Chinese Rear WASHINGTON May 1 The heroism of 101 Americans and Filipinos in the defense of the Philippines was officially recognized Friday in a war department communique announcing a list of awards of the Distinguished Service Cross Covering awards made since the Japanese invasion of the islands started December 7 the list included the names of Lieutenant General Jonathan M Wainwright now Philippine commander and others whose decorations had been reported previously Added to the generals honored was Brigadier General Spencer B Akin whose wife lives at Charlottesville Va Navy Officer Honored One navy officer Lieutenant John D Bulkeley commander of a squadron of motor torpedo boats which inflicted heavy damage on enemy shipping has been given the army's D S C it was disclosed Berkeley whose wife lives at San Antonio Texas already held the Navy Cross The roll of heroes included also the names of several other Americans and Filipinos whose exploits have become a part of the Pacific war saga among them: Major Thomas J H Trapnell who destroyed a bridge in northern Luzon in the face of heavy fire from the advancing Japanese Kelly in List Captain Colin P Kelly Jr bomber pilot credited with the destruction of the Japanese battleship Haruna The decoration was awarded posthumously inasmuch as Kelly met his death on the flight Lieutenant Boyd D Wagner outstanding flier who destroyed numerous enemy 'planes in raids on airfields Lieutenant Arthur W Wermuth the "one-ma- n army" of the Bataan peninsula fighting who was credited with the slaying of more than 130 of the enemy Among those receiving the award was Corporal Calvin E Latham son of James Allen La-' tham of Rexburg Idaho f “ L- - 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After breakfast the troops 'k''''''' P"71 All Colors Dozen 1 - d Czecho-Slovak- - peer-wonderi- ng $180 RIO DE JANEIRO May 1 (UP) — President Getulio Vargas re- 1 Reg ''' James M Stewart of Washington ceived minor injuries in an auto- it 3 STORES: director of lands for the Indian mobile accident Friday it was of- 4 so SOUTH MAIN service has been appointed super- ficially announced 10 EAST BROADWAY The accident forced cancellation intendent of the Navajo reserva448 WASH OGDEN-2tion ' succeeding E R Fryer it of Vargas' scheduled address ' at 1 N M GALLUP - i "Where are we?" Some had thought they were en route to India and others had picked the middle east as their destination but to- a man they were pleased when they found it was Australia The arrival of the American troops wa shrouded in the great-hou- r even' secrecy the exact being concealed from newspaper men who were permitted to cover it I spent 18'hours at the dock in order to be there when the troops came in With several colleagues I passed the night shivering in chill wintry breezes out to sea and where the boats were At 2 a dock workers deserted their creaking winches long enough to make a cup of tea which they asked us It proved to have--A dash of whisky in it which took some of the chill out of our bones Finally the transports took shape and began sliding slowly toward the docks From about 50 feet away they began shouting questions: 'Hey where is this? What country is this?" When they found out the next question was:' "Do they have any American cig- Prague radio announced Friday night that Field 1 Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch 1 is recuperating in the protectorate The radio did of not say from what the field marshal is convalescing k German-controlle- Heads Reservation c'' r"1 1 114 0 aliatil Li " (UP)—German troops clashed with French civilians iin May day manifestations in Rouen Friday and some civilian casualties were reported May - i t-- FRESH CUT r VICHY essary'' May 1 (UP) — The LONDON ' ' ' 1-- B formation of the Hawaiian islands "into a splendidly equipped fortress" is "one of the greatest achievements of the war" said King Friday Delegate Samuel Wthree-weeink as he completed a spection of Oahu and the outlying islands King paid tribute to the population's "absolute determination to see it through and make whatever sacrifices really are ec- In it 18-1- 1 ' 1 f 1 WASHINGTON May 1 UPI—Othe war department disclosed Friday that army recruiting officers had been instructed to get approximately four out of five voluntary recruite from the 9 age group: Quotas have been assigned to the Ninth corps areas for voluntary enlistment they said with a request that recruiting officers strive to obtain as nearly as possible 80 per cent of the quotas from the group below selective service draft age At the same time it was disclosed that the army plans to draw on the classification of selective service registrants for limited military duty This group deferred for minor physical defects will e not be used for combat or front-lintroops but can be utilized for many supply services officials said An experimental program of inducting registrants has been conducted in Maryland and Virginia through cooperation of selective service officials in those states and on the basis of this experience the program will be extended on a limited scale to the entire country fficials of Delegate Describes Nazi Military Ace Hawaii as Fort Suffers 'Illness' HONOLULU May (I)—Trans- (Continued from Page One) rounded on all sides by superior Japanese forces and hopelessly cut off (United States planes to relieve the beleaguered seeking Burma defenders raided Rangoon by night Wednesday inflicting damage in the dock area said a British broadcast heard by C B S in New York) The Chinese were reported to have concentrated large forces in Yunnan to meet just such a drive as the Japanese were carrying out along the Burma road Their success in resisting it depended on how great a force the Japanese had been able to pour into Lashio from Thailand Superior Jap Arms It was admitted that the Japanese had superior armament in tanks armored cars and planes and they were now rolling along an excellent highway adapted ironically for movement of just such mechanized forces—war goods for China's armies supplied by her united nations allies The Japanese however still were a long way from China's mountain-ringe- d provisional capital at Chungking 700 air line miles from Lashio The news of new Chinese and British disasters in Burma came on the heels of word of one of the rare sallied victories in that theater—the routing of a Japanese column with 500 casualties by a brigade of Indian Gurkhas north of Kyaukse 20 miles south of Mandalay Covering Allied Retreat This success came about while the Gurkhas were covering the retreat of British and Chinese forces from their lines five miles south of Manadalay—necessitated by the fall of Lashio—to new positions running from Kyaukse on the railway from Rangoon to Myingyan 4 ge 1-- B after leaping from the sinking Dr Hu predicted in an interview earlier Friday that the second World war would end some time the latter part of By E R Noderer Copyright Chicago Tribune AN ADVANCED ALLIED I BASF May that Australian Prime Minister John Curtin has announced the arrival of American troops the story can be told of how the Yanks arrived weeks ago at an Australian pert most of them not knowing where they were The first questions thousands of men hanging over the rail of packed transports shouted was top-structu- re ous" in Troops Traveled In Ignorance of Destination for bespectacled fighters Number one is a proposed fleet of truckborne optical shops—first of its kind and conceived especially for United States field armies—has rumbled out from the American Optical company where the optical equipment and special were built It left for an army training area where the crew of eight army optical technicians who will man it will receive special training prior to duty overseas with a field army Described by its commander Captain Joseph R Harrison as being "as complete as the average optical shop in the heart of New York City" the unit is designed to care for optical needs of a fighting army of 300000 men and present plans contemplate the building of additional units to be attached to each army overseas The army estimates that 15 per cent of the men in the armed forces wear glasses DENVER May1 (ifl—"Histortcat tradition" Dr Hu Shih said in an address Friday night explains why ''Japan of all the nations alone has succeeded in becoming one of the greatest military powers within the short space of a few' decades" The Chinese ambassador to the United States in a speech prepared for delivery to a city auditorium audience said that it is "no mere historical accident that Japan readily and willingly becomes a partner of the European axis powers and regards that partnership as the 'immutable policy' of the empire" Discusses Conflict Dr Hu speaking under sponsorship of the University of Denver's Social Sciences foundation discussed the differences in the historical backgrounds of China and Japan which led to "this basic conflict in the 'Pacific" "Independent thinking and courageous skepticism have always been the characteristics of the best periods of Chinese thought" he said "It is this spirit of free criticism and doubt that has overthrown the dynasty and the monarchy discarded the classical Ianguage as a tool of education and literature and brought about a new age of political and social revolution and cultural renaissance in modern China" Japan Different "How totally different is historic Japan "Historic Japan has been totalitarian in political organization slavishly credulous in intellectual life militaristic in training and imperialletc in aspiration In such an atmosphere of authoritarian and Mob control of the intellectual life it is most natural that not only 'dangerous thoughts' are rigorously prohibited but all thinking is regarded as danger- t i SOUTHBRIDGE Mass May 1 (Wide to his battle equipment Sam has added something brand-ne—unique mobile optical units designed to be driven within rifle shot of the front lines to repairor replace eye glasses la c 1 -- '' 7 AT UNITED NATIONS' By United Press ei - Copyright New York Times - Allies—(Official) 'Historic Tradition' Explains Rise 01 Nippon to Power Leaders Determined To Keep Open Vital Supply Lines UP)--C- t t Fr's: - I - § ilkiLlAtNICIAAMINRWPWAESOr al 1 ' ' L - - '' '34 I - ' fr '' Malaya-Singapor- f 1 o is Raids Destroy George Jacoby tating effect Lost Lives in 33 More Jap a Actual developments nese strategy blockade first was clearly indicated this Ground when reports from Australia Planes at Lae Mishap a stated that considerable force of of - t 4 : ' i :' " e ' er - t ''::4 S '4 1 : all-o- 4 :' ' "Ntt - I ie ivolo ed full-scal- 4 ' : l 4 - i ' I : ''''''4 ' ' '7 The warin the Pacific apparently le approaching a period of intense naval and land action among the islands southwest of Hawaii authorities maid Friday with the security of the allied supply route to Australia as the prize at stake A attack strong Japanese against one or more sections of the island chain guarding this ex tended lifeline probably is imminent it was added and the ensuing action if this develops as experts expect is almost certain to produce the greatest naval battles of ' the war to date First Taste of War' At the same time these experts said it may very well give American forces holding scores of island bastions from Hawaii to New Zeae land their first experience of the kind of amphibious warfare in which the Japanese proved so proficient in their China sea campaign An attack on the U supply line had long been regarded in informed quarters here as one of the two methods by which the enemy might try to eliminate the continent down-undas an increasingly powerful allied threat to his hold on the south China sea Strategy Indicated The other method is an attack on Australia itself That apparently has passed from the realm of probabilities at least for the present since General Douglas MacArthur's air forces have blasted Jap invasion bases with devas- z e(551e w 4 t0 — (111 bs ' Mobile Optical Shops Aid Where'sThis? Asks AEF in Army Bespectacled At Australia World)—Uncle - k ' ) 2 11912 11a Allies Struggle Chinese Envoy Blames- War To Maintain Route to China On Jap Culture ' :' ') a t May 1 ' 1: l WASHINGTON Ijt Salt 1Zake Zeitmut '' y4: r 1 - " 4 g ' - ' ' i ' fly John M Hightower e Before Tragedy Struck ' Japan Expected To Strike at Allies' Lifeline 14 '' I - - !' |