Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXVII, Number 21, 16 September 1942 — WAR NEWS [ARTICLE]

WAR NEWS

a:; AJUAbKA AKMY BAS£! Amcrican fighter planea atraSpd: Jnpnrww shippirig and men onJ Kl*k« today for the first time i'inoo the }.slflnd was occupled. Tli<» sp«»ctacii!nr rafd by two fightera followed on the heels of a bomb(>r trip niaele" by Brig. Gen. WiHiam O. Butler, copnVvander of the Alaskan air force, who led a !o\v lcvcl attack three days previI ously. • Butler bombers straddled severa! cargo ships in the harbor with near misscs and escaped iii thē clo'uds, They also strafed a eolumn of troops ashore and hit installations.

The figliter.<3, in the subsequent raid, reported th e y ~ maehinegfimned a flying boat on the water, setting: it afire, and demolislied _ a fighter drawn "up on the bca«_h ,anrl mdwed down \yhat appeared to ge a line of soldiers ui)tside a mess hall. AHhul Boml>ers Attack Shippsng LONDGN — Boston Douglas bombers escourtecf by ftghters atlaekeU Shipping at Cherbourg, France, this afternoon without loss to theinsslves, authoratitive sources said. Reuters dispatches from Stockhoim reported that planea, believcd to be British and Ameriean, bombed part of Bulgaria. Details were lacking. The Stockholm reports quoted apeeial correspondents in Berlin. Revenue Bil! Back To Tax Expets WASIIINGTON — The record shattering rcvenue bill, dipping <Jiroc:tly into the pocketā of more*than a third of the nation's citizens for money to help fight the war, went to technical draftsmen rcccnt.ly with mixed approval >and critfcism *rom members of the senate finance "committee. About 25,000,000 persons who previmisly paid no federal ineome taxes wo'uld join 20,000,000 old Laxpayers and corporations to provide treasury collections estimated unofficially at more than •$25,500,000,000 annually under tt rms of the measure as the eomm.'tto<? approved it. Senator Robert M. LaFollette (Prog.-Wis.) called the measure the worst tax bill in history. Senator Ai-thur Vandenberg (R. Mieh.) said the Democrats will have to accept the responsibility for the operatiōn of the new 5 per cent victory tax it levies.

Democratic leader Senator Alben Barkloy expressed the view con6urred in by several other members when he told reporters,

"I think it is a fair bill. It was the best we could do under the circumstances."

It is expected it will take the draftsmen 10 days to write the technical revision of the billi

Wreokage of Bomber . Located In Arlzona ST. JOHNS, Ariz. ~ Two civilian air patrol fliers, Jess Anderson and Bernice Larson, today reported they located the wreckage of the B-24 bomber | nnssing since Thursday nig h t . ! near the summit of the Olā Baldy | | mountain, about 50 irviles soutl\- i !uest from iiero. I Tucson, Arlz., ba?e- offlcers eon-1 firmod findin£ the wrecked plane 1 . but UeelineU to say it was th« | a r y boinber u n 111 i ' s;rounil partios covild reach &nd ; identify it. 'r. S. BomlK'ire Blast | Shipphi|t At i CAIRO - - Hi'ftvy Amerlc«n i tKimbeis in Uie d&yligHt »ttftcked i <lov'k tiU'ihUv's aiul shipping in Suda bay in Crete recently, hittuvg ship simi possibly a secou«3, Uio squadron anlatosy. Bombs wooe so*n in U»o <Aock art>«, but Uve reauits j \\ viv iu\t kiwwn, tlie r\i>ort v\dd- i I Ti« plaivcs, he&vy ] iiak bul uo figiitor« «uui ali n-tunuxi smfolj-. AMHHI lUfeUttg riam« IV>lio\tHl <)\or Europo la>\Mx>N • vlnit<Ki N*tions

| raiders, pr«sum&bly Russian, ap- j jparentiy were attackin£ Centacl | |European cities again. ! This was lndicated when the | I Budap«at statiou left the air j j sliortly before 9 o'eloek. | j J«st before the radio signed off | j th<s «uwuncer warn«d enemy air- J cr&ft oouid be expected £win th£i north«ASt, This wouW be direct| from Russia» £rom %ixer« big | bomb«rd havg b<Mn £iying iMpeal- i; «4ly of lato on K>ng night f!ights ( owt citles in Oorinaiv>-, Runva»i ' jia and Huiigury. j, FDR Urges Bettor Scrup | Drive Support 1 WASHINQTON * - rrcsi*mtj| urgins grsat«: c>Kitri- ( J ibuUons tht g-uvexiuucia . colU>ctlon c&nys»i4n. Mii ttu> Uck tj |«< cooper»tkui might { j that Uie "go\wainent just } havt? to pUiu UOk a- j fro4« o«rasi3. u j S*«Htent toid hisl pwsss confcivnce ihe | posssibiiitj tf\c A h«*ve to act m\>re 4rtttic*ky. . He s»id h« is sur« a vWi; f msxxs unusea ami 4is<At>iea ntetai, was lyins arouii4 Aiu<>ri e a u, (hOTO«s and £tna& j