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Show Yanks Set Pace in Paris Drive; ! New Pacific Blows Loom as U. S. Bombers Strike at Philippines . Released by Western Newspaper Union. (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ol this newspaper!) fw-sr W ' " , V V TL'C3 "T.i" Pacific Top picture shows U. S. 5th air force bomber at right struck by Jap anti-aircraft fire above Kokas, Dutch New Guinea, while bottom photo depicts its crash into the sea while accompanying plane flies back home alone. EUROPE: ( Fronts Afire The whole French battlefront quivered to the clap and clatter of gunfire as U. S. and British forces pressed their twin offensives against the German lines, with American troops reported approximately 50 miles from Paris. While mechanized columns speeded speed-ed the U. S. advance upon the former for-mer French capital from the west British and Canadian forces were making slower progress to the north Mow Caen, where strong enemy armored formations hacked away to contain the onslaught while still other large concentrations defended de-fended their exposed flank. I As the Allied drive on Paris rolled on through good tank country, U. S. forces in Brittany threw in all the weight of their superior gun and . tank fire to reduce the coastal ports of Brest, Lorient and St. Nazaire, which would open up important sup- ' ply lines from the Atlantic ocean. 1 With every man, woman and child in East Prussia mustered for civfl- ! Ian war service, and Russian forces 1 Tough German paratroopers, ! who faced the American on- slaught at St. Lo, developed a ! deep respect for V. S. fighting qualities. . j According to one of their re- 1 J ports, which fell into American j hands, they declared: "Enemy PACIFIC: Battle Plans "It's good to see you, Doug," said the President upon greeting General MacArthur at Pearl Harbor, and on that note did the nation's chiel executive open a three-day war conference con-ference with Pacific military and naval leaders on the development of new offensives for the unconditional uncondi-tional surrender of the Japanese. Heralding things to come in the Pacific theater, American Liberators Libera-tors raided the Philippines for the first time in 27 months, striking al airfields on Mindanao island, while giant B-29s flew over Japan itself to rain fire-bombs on the shipbuilding center of Nagasaki, and attacked oil refineries at Palembang in the Easl Indies. Completely restored after the attack at-tack of December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor Har-bor was bristling with acres o1 planes, tanks and other battle equipment equip-ment as Mr. Roosevelt inspected installations in-stallations during the conferences As a result of these developments the President said, Hawaii was n longer an outpost of U. S. defense but "one of our rear areas." WEATHER: Rain Needed As another heat wave struck part: of the Middle West, drought con ditions were intensified east of th Mississippi river, with crop growtl faltering in many sections. i accuracy of its fire and ma-i ma-i neuverability. Employment in depth, changes of positions, self-! self-! propelled guns during infantry attacks close to the front lines I is the doctrine followed. A i great -number of observation ; planes makes it possible ... to ; fire effectively even on small tar-i tar-i gets." Speaking of V. S. fire and phos-: phos-: phorus bombs and high explosive ' ammunition, the report revealed: "They cause stomach trouble i and headaches. . . ." lurching on the threshold of their ' "holy soil," Nazi armies fought bitterly bit-terly to hold off the Red forces advancing ad-vancing on that Baltic province of Germany. i i Farther to the south, the Nazis iountered Russian advances upon toe former Polish capital of War-law War-law with equal stubbornness, with f Ihe Reds seeking to relieve the stale- mate by switching their attack ' Irom the front of the city to the northeast in an encirclement at- Jl On the southern end of the long According to the weather bureau, Kentucky may harvest only 50 per cent of a corn crop, while condition of the grain was spotty in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, due to heat and moisture deficiency. In southern Illinois, soybean growth was poor to good, while extensive failures of potatoes, pastures and gardens were reported in Ohio. West of the Mississippi, however, corn prospects were excellent, with promise of a banner crop in Iowa where the drought was broken in the south, and a record harvest in Nebraska, with one more good rain. OIL: Allied Accord The withholding of raw materials from prospective aggressor countries coun-tries to contribute to postwar peace loomed as a result of an oil pac signed between the U. S. and Great Britain, which conditioned futu.e distribution of the product on super-vision super-vision of an international organization organiza-tion to maintain world security Calling for availability of oil to all peaceable countries at fair prices and the1 orderly development of re- I aiciu Datueiront, me nu&sidiw ' Pushed within 75 miles of the Ger-j. Ger-j. "an industrial province of Silesia, hile other Red forces moved with-p. with-p. 27 miles of the Czecho-Slovak bor-t bor-t Ber in the towering Carpathian mountains, where the rugged ter-s. ter-s. fain was suitable to Nazi defense. As U- S. and British troops poised $ or their assault on the enemy's j 'Gothic Line" in the hills north of SJ e Arno river in Italy,' Polish and J "alian units harassed the Germans 3" the eastern or Adriatic end of jjj battlefront. S With the Allies girding for an all-JW all-JW drive on the latest enemy moun-lain moun-lain fortifications, their problems supply over earthy, choky roads to the rugged country were relieved the restoration of the seaports of Torno, Civitavecchia and Piom-"ino. rnif ' setyTl Steltioius, and Lord Beaverbrook. sources without competitive wastes. fhP nfet envisions the future organi-Vnn organi-Vnn nf an international oil com-m com-m 'on to advise governments on "ow Se, should produce and sell "'othefprovisions of the pact seek to assure the recognition of the Principe of equal opportunity m obtaining ob-taining concessions. . 1 |
