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...minesweeper. They damaged a fourth cruiser, a fourth destroyer, six transports, an aircraft tender and a gunboat.* In a later attack on New Britain, U.S. Army bombers thought that they sank another Jap cruiser, damaged still another. U.S. and Australian airmen destroyed 12 Jap planes on an airdrome at Lae, shot another from...
...Japs last week began to execute this invasion plan. When they landed forces at Salamaua and Lae in Australia's outlying New Guinea, they were 400 miles from Cape York. Again they bombed Port Moresby, New Guinea's chief sea town. They were almost ready to invade Australia...
...cones, including three called The Mother and Daughters, showered ashes and red hot stones on Rabaul, killed 424 people. Last June Matupi began breathing unhealthy fumes on Rabaul., has been doing so ever since. Despairing of Rabaul, Australia ordered New Guinea's capital moved to the town of Lae on New Guinea proper...
...three months ago. With her Lockheed Electro, patched up, she took off in the opposite direction June 1 with Fred Noonan, onetime ace navigator for Pan American Airways,* flew leisurely to South America, Africa, India, Australia with a minimum of newspaper or public interest. July 1 they left Lae, New Guinea for the "worst section"-the 2,550 miles of open ocean to tiny Rowland Island, where no plane had ever been. With typical stunt flyer's negligence, Miss Earhart did not bother to reveal her position along the way. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca at Howland heard from...
...great that the Government is taking extraordinary measures to keep everyone fit for the job. Doctors and nurses make regular rounds. At the sign of a cold, chief cause of disability, the Federal worker must take one of two treatments. Last week the Public Health Service released its formu lae...