Yanks Take Air
Center On
Mindanao
By FRED HAMPSON
MANILA, May 14— <£*) —Jap
an’s vast DelMonte air center on
northern Mindanao fell to ele
ments of the United States Forti
o'h Infantry division without se
rious opposition Saturday, but in
the Davao sector the Twenty
fourth division is fighitng one of
the bitterest battles of the Philip
pine’s campaign.
Australians meanwhile cap
tured long-defended Wewak on
New Guinea. In a major triumph,
the Fortieth, which invaded north
ern Mindanao Thursday, swept
over DelMonte, which includes
three air fields and dispersed the
Japanese force to the east.
The Yanks pressed two miles
beyond DelMonte in a drive to
I join other American forces.
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(Aleutian Based
Planes Sink
Japanese Ships
By OLEN CLEMENTS
11th Air Force Headquarters in
the Aleutians, May 11 (Delayed)—
<>P)—American Army fliers sank
at least one Japanese ship and
damaged two more, including a
warship, and barely missed a 7,000
ton troop transport at dusk today
during a heavy raid on Kataoka
Navy base at Shumushu in the
Kuriles.
Japan officers said it is possible
that the air-sea battle is still rag
ing in that area. The enemy ves
sels sunk or damaged in this hard
est blow to Japanese shipping in
the north Pacific in almost two
years, included a 2,500 ton cat-go
ship blown up and one frigate
freighter.
One Mitchell bomber was hit
by flak and blew up in the air.
Meanwhile to the south of Katao
ka Navy search planes in two
flights strafed and fired rockets
into Japanese radar installations
on Minami Cape in eastern Para
mushiro.
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Saturday evening.
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present: H. J. Berner, F. C. Bing
ham, W. A. Boucher, Duke Mitro
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, capacity of chairman, and W. A.
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meeting. Nominations were open
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following results were recorded:
C. Dudley Warner was elected
president; Duke Mitrovich, vice
president; Frank C. Bingham, sec
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