Current Events March 21, 1944

THIS WAS OPERATED TODAY MARCH 21, 1944:

Marshall Island, March 4. (Delayed). (AP)—

The possibility That Amelia Earhart Putnam, world famed aviatrix, ran out of gas in the Marshall islands and was taken to Japan has been revived by a remark of a mission trained native to lieutenant  Eugene T. Bogan, 325 East 72nd street. New York City. 

London,March 21. (AP)

Upwards of 100,000 German and Rumanian troops were reported occupying Hungary today against the growing threat of Russian armies a bare 100 miles from the borders of the expanded Balkan kingdom.

Some scattered fighting sprung from the occupation but there was nothing to suggest any serious difficulties for Hitler

Associated Press War Editor

The sinking of at least 27 Japanese ships was announced today by Allied headquarters

— 22 of them by submarines — as indications mounted that one of Japan's by-passed fortresses in the Marshall Islands was about ready for the final assault.

 

IOLA, KAS., TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1944.

Heavy Nazi Forces

Drive Into Hungary

Hitler Acts

To Bolster

Balkans

Germans Meeting Only

Scattered Resistance

Swiftly Take Over

Control of Country

London, Mlarch 21. (AP)

Upwards of 100,000 German and Rumanian troops were reported occupying Hungary today against the growing threat of Russian armies a bare 100 miles from the borders of the expanded Balkan kingdom.

Some scattered fighting sprung from the occupation but there was nothing to suggest any serious difficulties for Hitler. Top-flight Hungarian leaders including the regent. Admiral Nicholas Horthy; and foreign ministers and possibly Premier Nicholas Kallay were, believed virtually kidnaped In Germany, when they had been summoned to receive peremptory demand. for all-out military assistance.

Germans Occupy All

Key Points in Hungary

Ankara, March 21. (AP)—

German troops are fanning out all over Hungary and occupying all strategic points, especially railroad Junctions and switching points, Bucharest dispatches said today.

No resistance.to the Germans was mentioned by the Bucharest correspondent of Anadolu

AJans, who first reported the occupation yesterday.

See End

To Balkan

Self-Rule

Observers Believe

Hitler Will Order

Military Occupation

Of Rumania, Bulgaria

By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

Washington, Mar. 21. (AP)

Diplomatic officials here predicted

today that full German

military occupancy of the

Balkans will end independent

civil government in Rumania,

Bulgaria and Hungary.

Along with this will go the long cherished Allied hopes that one or more of the satellite states would make peace before Nazi divisions overran them.

This prediction, made as German occupation troops marched into Hungary amid reports that a similar fate awaits Rumania and Bulgaria,was based on the causes which led to Hitler's new militarist expansion In southeastern Europe.

See Two Causes

Two causes were advanced. One Is the steady Russian army drive Into Rumania which confronts the German hiigh command with a military crisis In that part of the Russian battlefront. The other Is Hitler's fear that at the crucial moment of the campaign for the Balkans, now beginning, one or more of his strategic neighbors would surrender to t h e Allies.

27 More

Jap Ships

Are Sunk

Subs Account for 22;

Bombard Mill Atoll

In Possible Pre-Invasion

Softening-Up

By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ

Associated Press War Editor

The sinking of at least 27 Japanese ships was announced today by Allied headquarters

— 22 of them by submarines — as indications mounted that one of Japan's by-passed fortresses in the Marshall Islands was about ready for the final assault.

American submarines accounted for 15 ships in Pacific and Far East waters, the navy announced, bringing to 642 the number of Japanese vessels sunk, probably sunk or damaged

by undersea craft. Included in the American submarines' toll were two transports, two

tankers, and 11 freighters.

British Sink Seven Ships

Seven ships were sunk and three damaged by submarines off islands in the Dutch East Indies, the British admiralty said. A large river steamer, a small vessel of undesignated type and a supply ship were the only victims specified.

Find Another

Earheart Clue

Marshall Island, March 4. (Delayed). (AP)—

The possibility That Amelia Earhart Putnam, world famed aviatrix, ran out of gas in the Marshall islands and was taken to Japan has been revived by a remark of a mission trained native to lieutenant  Eugene T. Bogan, 325 East 72nd street. New York City. Lieutenant Bogan, a former New York tax lawyer and now a representative of the Marshall Island military governor. Admiral Chester W.-Nlmltz, commander of the Pacific fleet, said Elieu, the 30-yearold native, limited himself to these statements and stuck to them: "A J a p trader named Ajlma threei and a half years ago in Rita island told me that an American woman pilot came down between Jalult and  Allinglapalap atolls and that she was picked up by a Japanese fishing boat and the trader AJlma heard that she was taken to Japan,"

Elieu insisted that he heard of no man being with the "American woman pilot." Fred Noonan flew with Miss Putnam as navigator on her world-glrdlng trip.

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