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214. Associated Press Leased Wire ST. CLOUD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1044 United I'ress Leased Wire 5 CENTS 20' 12 rages by 4A Raid 6 Homf Reich Rocked. in Germans Hurled 2, 000 Planes Hit At Air Industries Trak Raid Nets 19 Jap Vessels Sank, 7 Damaged 201 Enemy Planes Destroyed Either in Air or On Ground Admiral Nimitz Says It Is Only Partial Settlement for Pearl Harbor. U.S.

Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor (IP) Nineteen Japanese ships sunk, at least 201 planes destroyed and terrific damage to land installations, was the score today in the United States Pacific fleet raid on Truk, the enemy's primary base in the central Pacific. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the fleet, told the story of the destruction wrought by carrier planes in the raid Wednesday and Thursday, and called it a "partial settlement" of the debt owed Japan for the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Nimitz made no mention of troop landings at Truk, as the Tokyo radio had announced, but he said his airmen sank the following ships: Two light cruisers, three destroyers, one ammunition ship, one seaplane tender, two oilers, two gunboats and weight cargo ships, USS SHANGKI LA This is the aircraft carrier Shangri La, as long as any ship ever built in the United States, on the ways at Norfolk navy yard, Portsmouth, where it will be launched Thursday by Mrs.

James Doolittle, wife of Maj. Gen. James Doolittle who led the April 18, 1912, bombing raid on Tokyo. (AP Wirephoto from U. S.

Navy) 'DOUGHBOY TOUCH' While inspecting an infantry unit in England, Gen. Ihvight 1). Eisenhower, supremo commander, demonstrates his "doughboy touch" by firing a Browning light machine gun off its mount and from the hip. (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radiophoto) Back Near Anzio In Sharp Battle Supreme Nazi Effort Is Stopped Cold in 48 Hours Desperate Fight. Allied Headquarters, Naples (P) A i a and British forces have stopped a supreme effort by densely-packed German troops to wipe out the Anzio bridgehead and have thrown the enemy back two miles toward Carroceto, Allied headquarters announced today.

The a i steamroller advance, aimed down the Anziate highway last Wednesday morning toward Anzio, the core of Allied beachhead, was halted only after all elements of Allied power were called into play during 48 hours of the most intense period of the fighting. "Our effort was very greatly assisted by magnificent support given by Allied naval units, Allied air formations and both British and American artillery," the communique said. The German offensive reached its peak before dawn Saturday. Then See Page 2, No. 2 Americans lake Eniwetok Moll From Nipponese U.

S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor (VP) Moving swiftly to close their death trap on Japanese defenders of the westernmost atoll in the Marshall islands, United States infantry and marine troops now are driving the enemy from Eniwetok island. In a new landing yesterday, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said, they seized half of the long island.

This gave United States forces possession of the entire Eniwetok atoll group except for the remaining half of the embattled island, and nearby Tarry island, site of a Japanese radio station. Casualties continued light, said Admiral Nimitz, who previously had disclosed the capture of Engcbi is land an its strategic airport, the enemy's main Eniwetok atoll base. Advance Is Rapid There was no information as the extent of Japanese resistance on either Engebi or Eniwetok islands, but the fact that the marines took Engebi in six hours, and advanced 3,000 yards in one day on Eniwetok indicated that pre-bn'ding bombardments were effective. Eniwetok island guards the broad southern entrance into the lagoon. See Page 1, No.

1 Liquor 'Lottery Sifted by State Red Armies Roll To Pskov, Minsk any law violation has occurred. They are: 0 1. Is the giver of the case of whisky operating without a license in dry territory? 2. Is a lottery being conducted? Fairmont, situated in Martin county, is dry territory, Haskin ex were, closed In counter-attacks. Tire rest were effectively sealed." Berlin broadcasts still maintained that nazi troops which were encircled at Korsun, 25 miles below the Middle Dnieper river, had escaped the death trap through the aid of Gennan armor and infantry attacking east of Zashkov, 55 miles west of Korsun.

The Russians have announced the erasure of the trap, with 73,200 Germans declared killed or captured. Russian dispatches said Friday night's heavy Soviet air raid n.galnst Pskov had thrown axis tranftixirta-tion facilities at the vital buso Into confusion. The Germans were said to be still digging bodies out of the wreckage of troop trains. Doolittle Sees New Jap Blows London (Pi Mighty aerial blows against Tokyo after the defeat of Germany were predicted today by Maj. Gen.

James H. Doolittle, who led I lie American raid on the Japanese capital in 1042. "Our fust step is necessarily Berlin," declared Doolittle In a prepared for broadcast to the United States marking the addition of the new carrier "Sliangrl La" to the US. navy. "Hut our ultimate destination still Is Tokyo-m id will arrive there In gallant and determined company." Doolittle said that ItrltUli military and civil leaders had en-pressed full determination "to carry Ihe war to the very heart of Japan in the.

shortest poslhlo time." "All of over here feel (lint, Hit. ler must In- finished first," lie de. la red. Youth, Wounded by Policeman, Dies Minneapolis il'i --Lloyd Thler, 30, of Miniieaxills, shot by Pa! milium Italph Variiska of the police force when at templril to tie a woman us a shield iiltei an at burglary, died In General IVW1MU-WI iai nooaun vwu- tinues After Weekend of Widespread Damages. London (VP) U.

S. For-tresses and Liberators dealt the nazi homefront its fourth great aerial blow in 36 hours by bombarding northwest Ger- many today a few hours after the RAF had hammered Stuttgart on the southwest border. Today's American force was officially announced as "approximating" the of the record armada which struck Leipzig and other key German centers Sunday, attesting the U.S. air force's growing strength. The bomber probably again approached the lane figure, with an additional thousand escorting fighters presumably the Eighth air force's impressive array of Thunderbolts, Lightnings and Mustangs, backed up by RAF Spitfires.

The exact target was not announced immediately. At the same time U.S. Marauder bombers hit the Coxy do airba.se In Belgium. Gen. H.

H. Arnold, chief of army airforces, declared a fourth of German fighter production was knocked out in the Sunday attack, officially described as the greatest daylight air operation in history. A count today showed 126 enemy planes were shot down yesterday. The latest announcement said only that "military Installations" were hit in northwest Germany. The Marauders and RAF Mosqui-tos jabbed into northern France and Belgium without loss.

damage" was done yesterday to important nazi fighter plants at Ieipzig, Brunswick, and Bernbcrg, the air force announced after a study of reconnaissance photographs. The two main 109 fighter assembly buildings at Leip-zig-Mockau were severely damaged by direct hits, two hangars at an adjacent airport were damaged, and a part plant at Leipzig-Heiterblick was set afire. "Tlie.se two Leipzig factories arc the essential part of a production complex that produced more than half of Germany's Messerschnutt 109s since the two other principal ME-109 production centers at Re-gonsburg and Wiener Neu.sta.dt were attacked by American air force bombers," the announcement said. The. tremendous American fleets, including 1,000 or more Flying Fortresses and Liberators plus fighter support, hit at seven German aircraft center cities, and struck also at military installations in Rostock, on Germany's Baltic coast in a deep westward plunge.

Sixty-five nazi fighters were See Page 2, No. 5 from tin armv her mil I mot her, iai ccn One cruiser or large destroyer, two oilers and four cargo ships were listed as probably sunk. American fliers shot down 127 enemy aircraft in combat and destroyed 74 more on the ground. More than 50 additional Japanese planes were damaged before they could take to the air. The attackers paid for this with only 17 planes lost and "moderate damage" to one surface ship, which Nimitz did not identify.

There was no air opposition the second (lay of the attack, Nimitz said. This testified to the great strength and accuracy of the first day attack which eliminated the enemy's airforce from action. It also hinted at the great damage that must have been done to the drydock and ship repair yards, air strips, gun positions, supply dumps and other installations of the big base under blows delivered without an enemy plane in the sky to dispute the attack. "Shore facilities on the principal islands, including airdrome runways and installations, were thoroughly bombed and strafed," the communique said. More Damage Coming The admiral's statement that the attack was only partial settlement for the Pearl Harbor debt indicated he had other plans to be put into effect before he considers the debt paid.

The Japanese during the one hour and 55-minute aerial hammering given Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, put 18 American warships out of action, including eight battleships, destroyed 177 army and navy planes and the killed, wounded and missing totaled more than 3,000. But of these eight American battleships, only one, the Arizona, was a total loss, and several of the others hit that day may have been among the big ships which protected the carriers on the Truk raid. Naval units in the attack were commanded bv Rear Adm. Marc A. See Page 2, No.

3 Truk Damage Is Heavy for Japs U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor Don't underestimate the damage inflicted on the Japanese fleet at Truk. It may seem disappointing that the United States carrier forces sank 19 ships there and probably finished off seven more didn't include Japanese carriers and battleships in their loll. Hut the heaviest units of the enemy fleet, believed to have been anchored at Eton harbor inside the Truk lagoon at various times in the past, apparently had been ordered elsewhere.

Sinking of cruisers, destroyers, oilers, cargo ships and other auxiliaries doesn't make nearly as sensational reading to the average ler-sion as the destruction of the more potent carriers and battleships. Remember, however, a fleet can't operate without these auxiliaries any more than the army can fight without food, guns or ammunition. Nippons Shaken By Truk Attack, Tojo Takes Over Nrw York (VP) The Tokyo radio acknowledged today that Japan had heavy losses in the American attack on her great naval base at Truk and announced that both the chiefs of the Japanese army and navy general had been relieved of their pasts. Premier Gen. Hidcki Tojo, a broadcast said, has personally assumed the role of chief of the army general staff in a sweeping shakrup that seemed to be a direct result of the American assault, described earlier by Admiral Chester W.

Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, as "partial settlement'' for the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. In a short wave broadcast to the United States, the Tokyo radio quoted an imperial headquarters communique as acknowledging the attack on Truk had cost the Japanese two cruisers, three destroyers, 13 transports and 120 planes. Liberator Flies Without Crew By Daniel DcLucc At the Fifth Army Beachhead South of Rome (Delayed) (P)-Grimy German doughboys lifted their eyes from shallow foxholes Friday and cheered the greatest American air attack against the encircling enemy. numbers fell in blobs of flame In the midst of black fields of flak (hat seemed to cover half the sky. Fighters twisted and turned in misty combat four miles above the earth.

But American air power smashed and smothered German tanks and Runs on the front and concentrations extending back to the hills of Colli Laziale. It was' a mammoth spectacle that continued hour after hour, keeping your heart in your throat as you prayed that each flight would go through the mushrooming deadly flak and come back all right. I was standing by tanks which were ready to charge the German position when a long Liberator bomber sailed over at 500 feet. The spic and span four-rngined ship appeared to have come from deep in German territory. It looked undamaged but It was slowly losing altitude.

Not until tonight did I learn from Major Jay Vessels of Minneapolis, the air force public relations of-licrr at the beachhead, that the Liberator I saw had not a man aboard. The pilot, LI. Thomas A. Scott of Honea Path, S. ordered the crew to bail out when flak hit two engines and gasoline from the- riddled fie'e Page 2, No.

6 London The Russians continued to roll over frozen ground toward the Baltic gateway of Pskov today while far to the south, a Berlin broadcast said, the Red army had thrown 100,000 more men into a powerful new push toward Minsk in White Russia. A Soviet communique announced that 114 villages were captured in I he drive for Pskov yesterday, with more than 2,200 Germans killed in advance of two to 13 miles through snirling snowstorms. Three points, each within 30 miles of Dno, a rail junction GO miles east of Pskov, were taken in the advance, the bulletin said. The Red army units nearest to Pskov were last reported 28 miles to the north, but Moscow announcements have not mentioned their progress in several days. The drives announced yesterday were taking place south and southwest of Luga, southwest of Novgorod beyond captured Shimsk and west of fallen Staraya Russa, below Lake Ilmen.

A Berlin broadcast also asserted that Russian forces in the I kraine had launched a furious assault toward Krivol ling, last big ore city held by the Germans in the Dnieper bend. Ernst Von Hammer, DNB military commentator, said the Russians had made "local in-net rations" southeast and northeast of Krivol Hog, but declared that "the majority of these Veteran Bombing Plane Visits U. S. Miami, Fla. i.l'i--Employes of the Consolidated-Vultee aircraft plant here will meet the crew and count the flak holes today in the -Blue Streak," one of their chicks that has dropped half a million pounds ot explosive, eggs on Axis targets, sunk three ships and downed 23 enemy lighters.

The big, fat-bellied Liberator bomber alighted at Miami's 3iit.li street aii'ixirt yesterday with ten happy crewmen, two combat cam-eraiiuii. and Hal Boyle, Associated Press war cot re.sixuulcnt. The crewmen will be given leave after telling aireralt, workers of their 50 bombing missions. St. Paul dT) A lottery which has been conducted in a war industry at Fairmont with a case of whisky as a prize, has precipitated an investigation by Earl Haskin, state liquor control commissioner, it was disclosed today.

Two primary questions must be determined, Commissioner Haskin said, before it is known whether London Lashed By Germans in Incendiary Raid London (P) Nazi air raiders scattered incendiaries and explosives over London in a short but fierce attack last night which set fires in many areas and caused some casualties. The assault apparently was staged In an attempt to repeat the big fire raid which was carried out against London early Saturday morning the heaviest blow which the British capital lias suffered since the big attacks of 1940-41. The attacking force, however, evidently was smaller than that of Saturday, when it was estimated 150 planes came over the city. First reports- indicated that at least three raiders had been shot down. The alert, which Ix-gan about 10 p.m.

lasted approximately one hour. There was a second brief alert at 3:26 a.m., apparently touched off by enemy reconnissance planes. Three schools, a Roman Catholic convent, a hotel, several apartment houses, a number of business properties and many private homes were burned out. The Berlin radio made great propaganda capital of the raid, describing it as a massive assault. One Dead, 3 Hurt In Auto Accident Minneapolis A 19-year-old youth was instantly killed and three others were seriously injured when their car failed to negotiate a turn about nine miles north of Minneapolis on the west river road early Sunday.

Dead was George Clayton Abra-hamson, 19. Seriously injured were Patricia Robideau, 17; Jerome Kls-ner. 17, and Joseph Nescnson, 19. all of Minneapolis. Authorities said the ear missed a turn, plunged into a tree and then caromed into a quarter-ton rock which was uprooted by the impact, News Index Kditorial Tage Financial, Markets Radio Programs Sport Pages Want.

Women's V.k "I Sec by The Tunes" .11 10 10 1 a plained. His investigators, under the direction of Thomas Hogan, in charge of enforcement officers in the liquor enforcement division, have found the lottery opera tee this way: Tickets are sold to employes of the Fairmont Motors manufacture of small railway cars, at $1 each. Alter 100 tickets are sold, a case of whisky is given to the first See Page 2, No. 4 Hill City Pilot Bags 2 Nazi Ships At a U. S.

Bomber Station in England (Pi Captain Don Beer-bower, Hill City, shot down a ME-109 and a ME-110 to boost his total to six and a half enemy planes destroyed when the greatest number of American air force fighters ever dispatched to escort a heavy bombing mission destroyed a record number of 61 German fighters yesterday in the mass assault against, German airplane factories in central Germany. Lieut. Terence M. Williams, of Gettysburg, N.D., downed two and Captain Norman E. Olson, Fargo, N.D., downed an ME-109 for his 15th kill.

APPEAL A NSW Kit Ml) r.n'ilual corps, pel oi'iurd an Mrs. I Maver), in Cant. Late Bulletins War Headlines Air War British bombers assault StuttKarl. (iermany. after "biRest Uniti-il Stales air mis.

sion in history" Sunday; Americans destroy 1 'J (ler. man lighters. Haly Allied troops back in Home bridge, head after regaining initiative; report bearhhrml never more seen re than today. Pacific Americans sink or damage to HO hliip.H and destroy L'Ol planes in assault on Truk; Tokyo announces shakeup in Japanese high command, Russia Soviets drive powerfully on 100 mile front toward n.iltii gateway ity of 5e Wr British report destruction of time ub marines. Stockholm (tV) Benito Mussolini is living in one small room in a modest farmhouse in northern Italy says the (ierinan newspaper Yoclkischer Hcohachter.

Lester (left), on emergency leave operation upon Washington Speaker Kay hunt (l)-Tex), said today President Roosevelt would send to 'congress tomorrow a message vetoing the new tax hill. The veto will he sustained, Kahurn asserted. Anna Mayer, 'Jl, (right, ii the with which the New York, to halt afflicted for IS days. Operation was successful, and the hiccups ceased. (AP.