Show WEEKLY N NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne U so S heartened by naval offensive against jap bases in south pacific air attacks on port darwin continue As allies strike back in new guinea edidin EDt TOIlS 8 NOTE nhsn opinions are expressed la ici these allt coin M are r those of tho th nw mows an ast and not or at ibis newspaper Ite Relea leased by western newspaper ne vB paper union t VIM R W M dr herbert vere evatt left australian minister for external affairs icing being greeted by acting secretary of state sumner avelles and richard G casey british minister of state in the he middle east cast at the washington airport the se selection lection of casey former australian minister to washing ton to serve in III the he british cabinet raised a controversy between aus gralian prime irime minister john curtin and winston churchill the australian government disavowed casey as ail australian representative ATTACK navy strikes tivice A d double attack by a navy task force the same which had struck with devastating force on the marshall and gilbert islands had beer delivered on wake island and marcus island the latter only miles from tokyo the latter attack scared tokyo so badly that the city ordered blackouts for several days afterward it was announced the delay in announcing these attacks tacks apparently occurred because in the first Ini instance tance the navy force was on the way from taketo marcus and want to telegraph its ills punch on the latter island As to the second attack the need for delay was probably one of two factors either that the navy force arwas was moving on elsewhere pr or else it was on its way back to pearl harbor for refueling and probably the latter as the cw dispatches come came from there considerable credit for the four attacks as the latter two must bo be considered part of the general onslaught which included the marshall and gilbert islands was was given to the commander of tho the force vice V admiral W F halsey in the first two the navy had lost Ia a number of planes butin but in the lat ieter ier two wo battles lire e only losses were two planes boi both shot down by antl anti aircraft jim fire ji surprise had been an important factor in both atticks attacks because at Wak eIsland three four motored sea planes had been found and destroy destroyed 1 before they got into the air and ati at marcus island no air strength of a any kind was found it began to explain the need for censorship for the japs hd had a nearly i completed airfield on the island and certainly would have had planes it there heie it if known our forces were on the way J ono one reporter riding on an aircraft carrier reported that its planes dumped 12 tons of high explosives 11 on marcus island alone his rink ringside side view of thi the a significance fl of the battle was that chati it had shattered an am important link in ja j pins pans chain chadnof of island bases connecting the country with Us its southwest pacific theater of war marcus also had been referred to in dispatches as japanese hawaii being a base not only potentially griat great for planes but for ships as P well ati the wake island attack was noti not completely a surprise as th the navy surface ships encountered a jap gunboat seven miles oil off the island and before she was sunk with one broadside she was able to flash word to the shore that the yanks acre ft the marcus island attack was in anthe the darkness but the wake island T battle was in full daylight the n shelling starting at a m just how little good a blackout i does docs was shown at marcus island 1 where a night flight of bombing planes jowas sent over the island with hares flares lighting their objectives and the first few hits started such huge fires that the other bombing nights flights needed no flares t shortly after the attack on marcus started the radio station went off the wair air abruptly it had been struck by a demolition bomb and shot into the sky NYA senators arguo ague 1 the jhb press plus senators mckellar Ilai and byrd continued its attacks on 06 the NYA end and the though t president roosevelt said that they both had their places in the war 1 Ac scheme heine and that he favored their retention lon the senators argued that the primary beason reason tor for the creation of the two agencies was to do something for youth during the depression and unemployment years they are not needed now they said see turning point whether the japs were going to turn aside from australia and con conj j cen on india had remained con coni i sid erable of a mystery but certainly their attack on alias outposts outpost sl had been slowed glowed to a point where the aussien began to see the turn 1 ing point right around the corner 1 I australian and american airmen i were carrying out almost nonstop non stop raids on now new guinea the solomons new britain and other objectives noth of the continent and their daily reports of planes destroyed showed that they were biting a coni con i sid erable piece out odthe of the Nippo nipponese strength in the air the japs continued their bombing attacks on port darwin also on katerine but the effectiveness wag was showing a downward curve apparently the main japanese objective was port pirt moresby on the southern end of new guinea a perfect hopi hop ol off 01 point tor for air attacks on northeast A australla ustin alJa fla by land through a big valley on the liland island they were approaching the australians defense positions around the port while through the air from Sala Salar maua natia analae and lac Lae they had been raining bombs on the town attempting to soften i it t up for attack by land it was at these two iwo bases Sala maua and lae that thai the au australian stra an and american bombers had been concentrating their attack and the results had been favorable LABOR cooperates co operates in war I 1 it was felt that organized labor had made an important contribution to winning the war also to peace in industry during the war effort by a decision reached simultaneously by the A F of L and the to yield their demand for extra pay bay for holidays the executive board of the recommended to that they forego all overtime pay for saturdays sundays and holidays when such work was done within tho botin boundaries darles of the i 40 hour week william green of the A AF F of L at the same time issued a statement that his organization had assured the government thatis that it would waive the double time piti payment ment for sunday and holiday work in all war industries tr desfor for the duration of the war philip murray however said he want wanted ed it clear that the unions would not relinquish their demand for overtime for work done on the sixth oi or seventh days of the ordinary 40 hour work week regardless of what days they fell on the request union bensaid men said had been made by president roosevelt and war production board chief donald M nelson volunteers get gc 40 planes the initials american volunteer group or the tiger fliers of the united states still held the spotlight of attention when it came to knocking out japanese planes their latest exploit had been to fly over the main jap airdrome in thailand with such a perfectly timed offensive that they were able to shoot to pieces 40 enemy aircraft on oil the ground before the japs could get the motors warmed enough to get into the air the victory like so many had its tragic side for the only plane lost to the americans in this attack had brought death to the squadron leader jack newkirk of Scar scarsdale idale N Y the pilots returning resuming to their hase base in burma from the fray reported that most of the japanese pilots of the grounded planes were killed as instead of seeking cover they ran to their ships and tried to get them stat slatted ted the americans diving low machine gunned the planes at close range destroying most of them |