Daily Post - 11.07.1943, Blaðsíða 4

DAILY POST
News In Brief
Mied Bombers
Hit Munda,
Jap Base
New York. — Allied heavy
artillery, bombers and war-
ships continued to blast the
strategic Japanese base at
Munda on New Georgia island
Saturday. There were no re-
ports of heavy action on aný of
the other Southwest Pacific
fronts from General MacArt-
hur’s headquarters.
It was reported that large
formations of Allied bombers
attacked the Jap base at
Munda, dropping thousands of
pounds of high explosives and
incendiaries on the airfield and
dispersal areas.
Heavy artillery on nearby
Rendova island, only five miles
south of the base, continued to
blast the base. Allied warships
also threw shells at the Jap in-
stallations.
American Forces in the New
\
Georgia group of the Central
Solomons beat off an attempt
by the Japs to land on Dugiri,
a small island northeast of
Rendova.
Allied planes raided Jap bas-
es from Timor to the Solomons.
A heavy attack was made on
Koepang in Timor. Nearly 50
tons of bombs were unloaded
on the enemy base at Salamaua
in New Guinea. In the Solo-
mons, attacks were made on
Vila on Kolombangara Island
and on the Kahille airdrome in
the Buin-Faisi district of the
Northem Solomons.
Juue Sub Sinkings
Lowest In War
Washington. — The battle
against U-boats is still show-
ing more encouraging progress.
A naval announcement today
said that during the month of
June there were fewer Allied
ships sunk by submarins than
in any month since the war
started. June was an even
better month than May which
established records for the
small number of Allied vessels
sunk by undersea craft.
Washington. A government
survey has shown that food
production has taken an up-
swing despite the slow start of
crops this spring. The total food
supply will be as large as last
year, but doubled military and
lend-lease demands will mean
slightly less food for civilians.
*
Akron, Ohio. A flood stopped
production . at the Goodyear
aircraft’s main plant here
for four hours.
*
Washington. President Roose
velt has signed a bill for an ad-
ditional $3,000,000 for construc
tion of 200,000 housing units.
The Senate has passed a bill
for $200,000,000 for communi-
ty facilities in war indstruy
areas.
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Chicago. Fred B. Snite, the in-
fantile paralysis victim who has
spent the last seven years in an
iron lung, is fighting on at his
home after a serious heart at-
tack. Snitte and his wife, Ter-
esa, expect their second child
next month.
*
Cleveland.—The Cleveland
Plain Dealer, one of Ohio’s lea
ding newspapers, has found a
new way to save newsprint
paper. The paper’s management
has restricted the size of help
wanted advertisements appear-
ing in classified section.
*
Baltimore. A Liberty Ship
named for the late actor, play-
wright and comiposer George
M. Cohan has been launched at
a shipyard near Baltimore.
*
Zurich. Women workers in
Italian war factories in Bologne
have gone on strike according
to reports reaching the Italia'n
frontier. They have refused to
work unless they are adequat-
ely fed.
*
Sydpey. For the first time
since Italy’s enfry into the war,
consignments of merchandise
shipped from Britain have ar-
rived here over the route
straight though the Mediter-
ranean sea. The traveling titne
was well under three weeks.
*
London. Brigadier General
Myron R. Wood has been ap-
pointed chief of the supply di-
vision of the United States Ar-
my Eighth Air Force.
Madrid. American credits for
merhcandise shipments to
Spain prior to commencement
of the Spanish civil war are to
be unblocked following arran-
gements completed with the
Spanish Foreign Exchange in-
stitute. The exact amount in-
volved will not be known un-
til creditors have registered
their claims with the National
Foreign Trade Council in
New York.
*
London. Flying Officer Bri-
an Wilson has been picked up
by a rescue vessel after float-
ing in his rubber dinghy for 7
days. Wilson, an Anglo-Brazi-
lian, was reported missing on
June 30th after operations aga-
inst the enemy.
m
London. Another Argentine
do^unteer pilot in the Royal
Air Force has been awarded the
Distinguished Service Order.
He is Acting Flight Lieuten-
ant James Stanley Watt, who
already has the Distinguished
Flying Cross. Watts comes
from Buenos Aires, where he
worked for a British firm. He
took part in many important
bombing attacks against Ger-
many, including raids on Ber-
lin and Hamburg.
♦
Moscow. — The government-
controlled newspaper “Izves-
tia”, commenting upon the death
of Polish Premier Sikorski, said
today that there must be a
strong and independent Poland
after the war.
*
London. — It was announcd
here tonight that the U.S. army
air force in North Africa has
added a new American fighter
— similary to the Mustang —•
to its force. The fighter, one of
the world’s fastest, can carry
bomb racks and can be used in
the dual role of a dive bomber.
*
In daylight Friday, the RAF
fighters attacked mixed targets
in occupied territories. Mus-
tangs went for locomotives,
Typhoons successfully attacked
shipping off the Cherbourg
peninsula, and Mitchells bomb-
ed unspecified targets at St.
Omer, where four FWs got a
hot reception. One of them
probably managed to limp
home. but the other three were
shot down.
Patents On Nature’s
Processes Invalid
San Franscisco. The United
States Circuit court has ruled
that you cannot patent the pro
cesses of nature. The court
held invalid the famous Steen-
bock patents covering the pro-
duction of vitamin D by ultra-
violet rays. The court said that
if the patents were valid ev-
ery farmer who exposed his cut
alfalfa to the sun would be an
infringer.
The patent covered all ultra-
violet rays and not along those
made artifically. The Steam-
bock patents have netted $7,500-
000 for the University of Wis-
consin Research foundation, to
which the inventor turned ov-
er his royalties.
World News |
Oklahoma City, Okla. Form-
er Gov. Leon C. Phipips, of
Oklahoma, and Robert F. Fitz-
gerald, former state pardon and
parole officer, have been ar-
rested and charged with receiv-
ing $500 each in an $8,000 pa-
role payoff. Both were freed in
hail.
*
Prime Minister McKenzie
King of Canada told the people
of that British dominion today
that thousands of Canadian
troops were figuring in the
battling on Sicily. He warned
the people to prepare them-
selves for heavy fighting and a
long battle.
*
San Francisco. Gene Krupa,
nationally known jazz drummer
and orchestra leader, has been
sentenced to prison for one to
six yars for inducing a minor
to transport narcotics. While
his attorneys are planning an
appeal, Krupa is in jail on a 90
sentencé for possessing maiju-
ana cigarettes.
*
London. Reports from Cairo
say that all Greek Guerillas
have been organized under the
Allied command.
*
North -Africa. Brig. General
A. C. Strickland, of the U. S.
army air force, has been appoin
ted military governor and head
of the garrison on Pantellaria,
the tiny island halfway be-
tween Tunis and Sicily.