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Weather Report
Slightly cooler tonight. Shower* Friday
morning.
Temperatures today—Highest, 90. at 3:50 p.m.;
lowest, 70, at 6:26 a.m. Yesterday—Highest. 95,
at 4:50 p.m.; lowest, 69. at 5:55 a m. Full re
| port on page A-18.
Closing N. Y, Markets—Soles, Paae A-19.
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LATEST NEWS AND SPORTS
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Washington t>RT?FF FFVTQ Elsewhere
and Suburbs J x1xvxL.xj I^XjxNICs. FIVE CENTS
OPA Raises Point
Value of Butter,
Canned Fruits
Ration Cost of 35
Meat Cuts Reduced,
Effective Sunday
(Chart on Page A-S.)
By JAMES Y. NEWTON.
The Office of Price Adminis
tration today raised the ration
cost of creamery butter two
points a pound, lowered values of \
meat cuts and increased the j
p<fnt values of many canned
3<fd processed foods. All changes
lie effective Sunday.
-^Lowering of point values of most
lamb cuts, bacon, sirloin steak and
rib roast reflect an improvement in
civilian meat supplies, officials said.
It follows closely action of the War
Foods Administration in lifting all
quota restrictions for two months on
the slaughter of livestock. The j
WFA move, it was said, will put I
more meat in civilian markets.
Reflecting the effect of this year's
short fruit crops, point values of
most canned fruits were raised from
two to six points. All frozen fruits
and most of the popular frozen
vegetables were increased in ration
cost three points a package.
WFA Move Is Experimental.
In removing quota limitations on
livestock slaughter, WFA officials
said it was an experiment that pos
sibly might be made permanent. It
coincided with the Agriculture De
partment's prediction that a large
increase in livestock production this
year would raise total food produc
tion 5 per cent over last year's
record. Officials said the action
should encourage greatly the flow
of livestock to market.
OPA raised the ration cost of
creamery butter from 10 points a
pound to 12. Officials said the higher
point value takes in account the
Increased quantity of butter made
available to civilians by the reduc
tion in the amount set aside for
Government use, which was an
nounced earlier this week. It reflects
a decrease in the amount of; storage
(See MEAT, Page A-18 i
Mercury Sets
Mark, Soaring
To 90 Again
A 71-year-old record for hot
weather in Washington was
smashed today when the ther
mometer recorded 90 at 3:50 p.m.
for the fifty-fourth day this year.
Showers promised this afternoon
failed to arrive but the forecaster
Said it would be slightly cooler to
night and that tomorrow morning
Would bring showers.
Apparently satisfied with creating
a new record, the mercury’ dropped
back to 89 degrees at 4 o'clock.
Italy Says No Prisoners
Have Been Shifted to Nazis
■j the Associated Prefa
LONDON, Sept. 2.—War Secretary’
Sir James Grigg yesterday an
pounced Italy's assurance that no
British prisoners had been trans
ferred from her hands *lo Germany
since the fall of the Fascist regime
July 25.
"We know a certain number were
transferred shortly before the
change of government, but still 1
await details from the protecting
power,” he said.
Inquiries had been made through
the International Red Cross.
Oen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told
the Italians in a radio broadcast
message July 29 urging surrender
that the hundreds of thousand Ital
ians captured in Tunisia and Sicily
would be returned home ' provided
all British and Allied prisoners now
In your hands are restored safely
to us and not taken away to Ger
many.”
Major League Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
At Detroit—First Game—
St. Louis 000 120 001— 4 10 0
Detroit 003 000 002 - 5 13 1
Batteriea—Sundra. Caster and Ferrell;
Brent and Richard*.
At Detroit—Second Game—
St. Louis ... 000 00 —
Detroit __ 300 1 —
a„and Hare*; Hew
bonier and (Jnacr.
Chicago at Cleveland—«.30 P.M.
(Only Games.)
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
At Brooklyn—
New York... 200 001 000- 3 6 0
Brooklyn 001 000 021- 4 12 1
—FJjthIr' *d*m* and Cam
bardi. Great. Head. Daria and Braran.
At Cincinnati—
Chicago ... 030 000 000— 3 8 1
Cincinnati 001 000 000- 1 3 0
,B< MeC4.ll.nth; Bid
4 Boston at Philadelphia—9 P.M.
(Only Games.)
Today's Home Runs
American League..
Harris, Detroit, 4th inning.
Late News Bulletins
Two Flyers Die in Mechanicsville Crash
Two Army flyers were killed when a plane crashed at
Mechanicsville, Md., late this afternoon, it was learned from
State police at Waldorf, Md. Army officials declined to
reveal the names of the men until the next of kin are
; notified. The plane was based at the Camp Springs (Md.)
Airport, police said.
Hecht Co. Appeals on OPA Injunction
In a test case, the Supreme Court was asked today to
decide whether the OPA is entitled to an injunction to re
strain a store from future violations of general maximum
price regulations whenever the act has been violated in the
past, even though unintentionally. A ruling was sought by
the Hecht Co. in appealing from a decision by the United
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, that an
injunction was required by the Emergency Price Control Act
whenever a violation was found.
Gen. Arnold Arrives in England
LONDON iJP).—Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the United
States Army Air Forces, has arrived in Britain from Wash
ington, United States Army headquarters announced today.
The announcement gave no details of the general’s journey
or the purpose of his trip.
Gripsholm Leaves Jersey City
To Exchange Jap Prisoners
Swedish Vessel Also Carries Parcels
For U. S. Citizens Remaining Captives
The Swedish ship Gripsholm
sailed today from Jersey City,
carrying 1,330 Japanese and sup
plies to meet a Japanese vessel
in Portuguese India, where an
equal number of American pris
oners of Japan will be picked up.
according to a War Department
announcement.
The Gripsholm will proceed to
Normugao, the port of contact,
under arrangements negotiated
through the State Department.
Americans who have been interned
in Japan and the Far East since the
start of the war will be exchanged
and brought back to this country.
The Gripsholm originally was
j scheduled to leave New York on
i September 15. Due to circum
| stances over which the United
I States had no control the sailing
date was advanced.
i In addition to parcels of food and !
clothing furnished by the Army and *
Navy, and Red Cross medical sup
plies, the department said the
j Gripsholm carried many parcels
(See GRIPSHOLM, Pag~e~A-’2.)
NEW YORK. —SURVIVES
STABBING—Ettore Manfredi,
61, described by police as an
anti-Fascist writer, pictured
in a hospital after being
stabbed last night. Although
150 stitches were taken on
Manfredi's face, his condition
today was reported not
critical.
GUISEPPE NUD1
Shown after he was arrested
and charged with felonious
assault in connection with the
stabbing. —A. P. Wirephotos.
Markets at a Glance
NEW YORK. Sept. 2
Stocks irregular; early advance
falters. Bonds mixed; some rails
advance. Cotton lower; favor
able crop weather causes selling.
CHICAGO. — Wheat declined
U-34 in sympathy with rye. Rye
dropped l2-7g; September weak
est. Hogs fairly active, 10 to 20
cents higher. Top. $15.25 on light
weights. Cattle, fed steers and
yearlings fully steady. Top,
■ *16.75 on prime weighty steers^
August War Spending
Put at $7,232,206,853; j
Topped Only by June
Pay-as-You-Go Taxes
Boost Monthly Receipts
To $2,720,821,506
Bs the Associated Press.
War spending in August re
bounded from the July slump to
total $7,232,206,853, only $237,
059,821 short of the June record,
the Treasury disclosed today.
War activity expenditures last!
month were more than $200,000,000 ;
below the $7,469,266,674 for June.1
although the Treasury daily state
ment for August 31 said about half |
the drop represented a bookkeeping i
transaction.
Except for June, the August
; spending for war was the highest
on record for any month—$140,000.
1 000 above that for May. first month
to pass the $7,000,000,000 figure.
Spurred by pay-as-you-go tax col
lections. receipts for the month
netted $2,720,821,506. a $713,398,127
i increase over July. Of that amount
i $547,726,863 came directly from pay
roll deductions contrasted to only
$19,378,195 reported for July.
Although the current collection
| system was started July 1 much of
i the month's receipts did not show |
; until August. Likewise some Au
i gust withholdings still are to be de- i
| posited with the Treasury.
The public debt at the end of Au
gust stood at $148,000,071,037.67. an
increase of $2,684,207,676.56 for the
j month.
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450 Fires Reported
Still Burning in Berlin
Swiss Dispatches Quote
Dead Estimates of 5,000
1 By tht Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM Sept. 2.—Swiss
; dispatches said today that 450 fires
were still burning in Berlin after !
| Tuesday night's RAF block-buster
| raid and that estimates of the dead
! ran as high as 5.000.
The newspaper Allehanda report
ed from Bern, Switzerland, that
some of the fires raging in the Ger
man capital were so large no effort |
was made to extinguish them, fire
men merely attempting to keep
them from spreading.
Allehanda said fire-fighting equip
ment was called to Berlin from j
Frankfurt-Am-Oder, Stettin. Kues- j
trin. Dresden and Leipzig. The main
force of the raid was felt in Central
Berlin, it was said, in the district of
Stettiner Bahnhof, Alexander Platz
and Hallesches Tor. and damage was
also suffered in the southeast and
sounthwest suburbs such as Steglitz,
Lichtenberg and Kottburger Tor.
Sergeant Says 2 U. S. Bombers
Made Suicide Dives at Ploesti
j By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 2.—Technical
1 Sergt. Frank B. Kozak of Carbon
dale. Pa., arrived in the United
States today with a gripping story
of how the. crews of two big, four
engined Liberator bombers sacri
ficed their planes and lives bv de
liberately diving into Ploesti oil
field targets, causing tremendous
explosions and fires.
Sergt. Kozak, a crewman on a
Liberator piloted by Lt. Col. Julian
Bleyer, said the two heavy bombers
were hit and smoking before they !
dived downward as a sacrifice "to ‘
shorten the w'ar.” He saw one !
other big plane crash to earth a mo
ment after releasing a cascade of
bombs on a refinery.
"From my window I saw a Libera
tor rush in near us, smoking heav
ily, almost out of control,’’ he re
ported at the Army air base here.
”1 could see the pilot working the
controls. He headed the bomber at
a big refinery and dove into it.
(See PLOESTI, Page A-lft)
160 U. $. Planes
Raided Marcus,
Japs Report
Damage Is Admitted;
Speculation Arises
Over Future Blows
By the Associated Press.
While there was wide specula
tion as to whether the American
raid on Marcus Island yesterday
was a feint or a well-aimed
knockout blow, a Japanese im
perial headquarters communique
today admitted damage to- the
small defense base less than 1,200
miles from Tokio.
The communique, broadcast from
Tokio and heard in London by the
Reuters news agency, said 160
bombers and fighters participated
in the attack and added there was
"some damage suffered by our
grounded planes.”
Claiming 12 American planes were
shot down, the communique said
in telling of the raid, which was
first announced by the Japanese
early yesterday and later disclosed
by the Navy here as “presumably
in progress."
A broadcast of the same com
munique as heard in New York by
United States Government monitors
said, “Although we received slight
damages on our planes on the
ground, damages inflicted on our
personnel and military facilities
were almost negligible.”
Two Carriers Reported in Raid.
Another Tokio broadcast, also re
corded in New York, said two Amer
ican aircraft carriers took part in
the attack, sending out "90 Grum
man fighters” and "about 60 car
rier bombers.”
The Japanese announcement yes
terday said the attack was carried
out by "many planes.” A naval
spokesman here said an aircraft
carrier task force had been dis
patched to attack the island, which
is on a direct route between Hawaii
and Yokohama.
Three possibilities emerged from
the meager accounts of the spec
tacular raid:
1. The carrier task force which
bombed and shelled the island may
have been preparing the way for
occupation It is not a large place
but in American hands it could
serve as an outpost w-hich w'ould
harry Japan's communications with
the South Pacific.
2. The attack could have been a
feint to cover some highly impor
tant move elsewhere, conceivably
occupation of Wake Island, or a
drive on the vital Japanese positions
in the Kuriles.
3. The Navy may have moved in
for a slashing hit-run blow for its
psychological effect, alone.
At any rate, the action served no
tice on Tokio's admirals that the
(See MARCUS Page A-2 )
Army, Navy to Play
Football This Year
McCloy Says Place
Not Yet Determined
By the Associated Press.
The Army and Navy football game
will be played this autumn. The
decision was made known today by
John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary
of War.
Asked at a press conference
whether any decision had been
reached on the West Point-Annap
olis contest, Mr. McCloy replied:
"It is my understanding that the
game is to be played, but there is
no decision yet as to where it will
be played.”
There has been no question on the
remainder of the West Point sched
ule, Mr. McCloy added, and "they
are going to play that out.”
Still unsettled, apparently, is
whether to yield to repeated de
mands from sports fans, including
Senator Mead, Democrat, of New
York and other members of Con
gress, that the game be played in
a metropolitan center, such as New
York or Philadelphia, to permit the
greatest possible number of peo
ple to witness it.
As presently scheduled, the game
would be played at West Point
November 27.
Roosevelt to Talk Sept. 8
On Eve of Bond Drive
President Roosevelt will make a
radio address on the night of Sep
tember 8—the eve of the Third War
Loan Drive. Stephen T. Early, White
House press secretary, announced
today.
Tire President will go on the air
at 9:40 p.m., and his speech will re
quire about 10 minutes.
The Third War Loan Drive for
$15,000,000,000 will open September 9.
On the same, program with the
President will be a group of movie
actors, headed by James Cagney.
At Secretary of the Treasury Mor
genthau's press conference today
the national director of the drive,
Ted Gamble, said the broadcast
would be carried by all four radio
networks. Movie theaters are ar
ranging to halt performances to
hear Mr. Roosevelt's message and
the actors' appeals for bond pur
chases.
Mr. Morgenthau said that as an
indication of the enthusiasm which
the campaign has aroused, the en
tire State of Indiana will be blacked
out on the night of September 8
and that at 8 o'clock the following
morning the State will be placed on
an alert by "everything that can be
tooted or rung'' as a signal to bond
salesmen to open the drive.
MESSINA LINER SUNK BY ALLIED BOMBS—Two RAF officers stand on the water front here and
look at a liner wrecked by Allied bombs during occupation of the island. An abandoned mili
tary truck is at right.__-A. P. Wirephoto.
Axis Reports Allies
Massing lor 2*Way
Invasion ol Europe
Paris Radio Stresses
Dispatches Telling of
Warships at Gibraltar
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 2.—In a series
of nervous broadcasts, Axis radio
commentators declared today
the Allies were massing vast in
vasion armadas both in the Med
iterranean and in Britain for a
two-directional continental as
sault which might be sprung at
any moment.
Whether based on fact or fancy,
or in the hopes of gleaning in
formation on Allied plans, the sud
den spurt in the enemy's invasion
speculation betrayed his uneasiness
over what the immediate future will
bring.
The Nazi-controlled Paris radio
gave considerable attention to re
ports from La Linea, Spain, telling
of the presence at Gibraltar of
I 2 battleships, four aircraft carriers,
! 20 cruisers, 48 destroyers and 45
I merchantmen.
Move Across Channel Seen.
At the same time a military com
mentator of the German news
agency, DNB. asserted in a Berlin
broadcast that "It cannot be denied
| that the Anglo-Saxons have suc
! c.eeded in assembling a great flo
I tilla consisting of transport and
| landing craft for their plans in the
Mediterranean.'’
In another broadcast the Paris
; station said a second amphibious
force was assembling in Britain and
that "The moment is approaching
when an Anglo-American invasion j
armada will cross the Channel and :
disembark its armies on the French :
| coast.”
“Two gigantic armies will come to
grips in the near future,” the broad- !
I cast said, “and Frenchmen will wit- j
ness far more vicious battles than
I anything experienced in 1940. Allied |
air attacks on French towns have
i only been a foretaste of things to !
romp ”
Troops Being Withdrawn.
Earlier, Berlin came out for the
i first time with an assertion that:
German troops were being with
! drawn from the Russian front to
meet the Allied invasion threat in
the Mediterranean and Western
Europe.
This appeared to be more of an
attempt to discourage Allied inva
i si on plans, for the best information
in London was that instead of re
inforcing troops in Western Europe
the Germans may well have been
diverting them from France and the
Low Countries to Italy, Denmark
and the Balkans.
Negro Council Head Urges
Protest Vote tor GOP
By the Associated Press.
Edgar G. Brown, national director ]
of the National Negro Council, called !
on colored persons today to vote for i
Republicans in the next election in !
protest against what he termed the !
administration’s "Jim Crow policies s
j in the military services and on the S
1 home front.”
“By the repudiation of every Dem
ocratic office seeker in New York,
New Jersey, Kentucky and Philadel
phia in the special elections this
fall, and of the national administra
tion next year,” he said in a state
ment, “the Negro will definitely ad
vance the uncompromising fight to
end once and for all the continued
disfranchisement, segregation and
unequal treatment of the colored
race.”
Guide for Readers
Page.
Amusements
A-14
Comics B-18-19
Editorials A-10
Edit'l Articles
A-ll
Lost, and Pound
A-S
Page.
Finance A-18-19
Obituary A-12
Radio B-19
Society_ B-3
Sports A-16
Where to Go B-6
Woman's Page
B-12
U. S. Heavy Artillery Begins
Softening of Kolombangara
Santa Isabel Believed Evacuated
As Flyers Report Guns Silenced
Bjr the Associated Press.
GUADALCANAL, Sept. 2.—The
Americans have opened fire with
heavy artillery for the first time
in the process of softening up
Southern Kolombangara Island
for capture as fighter and bomb
ing planes carried the war spec
tacularly to the Japanese by air.
Tire artillery was placed on North
ern New Georgia Island, only re
cently taken from the Japanese in
the Allied offensive up through the
Solomons.
Tire heavy' shelling began Tuesday
on the heels of a raid by American
DUCK HUNTER—Three-year
old Barney Cox. central figure
in a custody case, is shown
coming out of District Court
with a paper duck in his arms
after his antics disrupted the
session. Barney, who lives
with his mother at 1178 Morse
street N.E., was told by Justice
Matthew* F. McGuire to go
outside the courtroom and
hunt ducks. (Story on Page
B-l.) —Star Staff Photo.,
Mitchell medium bombers on Vila in
the same area.
• Dispatches from Allied head
quarters said there was some
reason to beelieve the Japs have
abandoned Santa Isabel Island
with its seaplane base at £ekata
Bay.
At the same time near Vella
Lavella four Warhawk fighter planes
daringly attacked 6 to 10 Zeros and
12 -dive bombers which were as
saulting American shipping. Five
enemy planes were downed, and
probably two others.
in another action, Ccmdr. Harry
'See PACIFIcrPage_A-2.)
U. S. War Casualties
Now Total 104,658
For All Services
Army Losses in Sicily
Put at 7,500; Merchant
Marine Loses 4,751
By the Associated Press.
Army losses in the 38-day con
quest of Sicily numbered 7,500
killed, wounded and missing to
bring the Army’s over-all "war
losses to 70,872 and lift the an
nounced casualties for the armed
services and merchant marine to
104,658 since the Pearl Harbor
attack.
The latest Army figures were
given at a press conference today
by John J. McCloyd, Assistant Sec
retary of War. He said that of the
70.872 casualties in all combat zones
9.209 were killed in action or died
of wounds, 20.159 were wounded.
21,764 are missing and 19.740 have
been officially reported prisoners of
war.
9,000 Wounded Recover.
Of the Army wounded. Mr. Mc
Cloy said, more than 9.000 have re
covered completely and returned to
active duty. He added that the
total of missing included a large
number of Philippine Scouts lost
at Bataan and Corregidor.
Navy casualties announced to
date are 21.593: marines. 7.099. and
the Coast Guard, 363. The latest
(See CASUALTIES, Page A-18.F
Gen. Lee, Paratroop
Founder, in Britain
Er the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 2.—Maj. Gen.
William C. Lee, former chief of the
United States Army's airborne com
mand and now commander of an
airborne division, arrived today at
headquarters of the European thea
ter from the United States.
Gen. Lee, whose home is in Dunn.
N. C . is known as the father of
American parachute troop opera
tions. having organized the first
school at Fort Benning, Ga.
Sick Father's Plea to Son, 16,
To Return Home Is Broadcast
Station WMAL today broadcast a
plea of a paralyzed father to his
missing son to return home.
Lindy Fields. 16. son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Fields, Cabin John, Md.,
has been missing from his home
since Monday night. District police
also have been asked to seek his
whereabouts.
The father has suffered three
paralytic strokes and is not ex- i
pected to live, a member of his'
family told The Star today. ‘He
cried this morning and was asking
for his son,” a relative said.
Young Fields, described as 5 feet
9 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds |
and having brown hair and blue j
eyes, telephoned to his home Mon- j
day night from Betheeda to say he !
was on his way home. He said
he was W'ith Alton Sieh, 16. who
also has been reported missing by
his parents. Neither has been seen
nor heard from since then, it was
said today.
The Fields youth has a sister liv
ing in Florida, but a long-distance
call revealed he w-as not there, the
family stated. Young Fields had
been working as a carpenter's helper
in Cabin John.
Air-Raid Alarm in Rome
LONDON, Sept. 2 (/Pi.—The Sw-iss
radio said today in a broadcast re
corded by the Associated Press that
an air-raid alarm was sounded yes
terday in Rome, but that no bombs
were dropped. I
Kursk Region
Freed; Donets
Town Taken
Nazis Pushed Back
All Along Front ,
In New Victories
By the Associ»tsdPr««.
LONDON, Sept. 2.—Hard-driv
ing Red Army forces, pushing
the Germans back all along the
far-flung Russian front in one -
of their most successful weeks
of the war, captured the im
portant Ukrainian town of Sumy
and the Middle Donets town of
Lisichansk today and drove the
Nazis out of the entire Kursk
region north of Kharkov, Mos
cow announced tonight.
A special communique, broadcast
by the Moscow radio and recorded '
by the Soviet monitor, announced
the capture of Lisichansk and many
other populated points in the Do
nets Basin. Earlier Premier Joseph
Stalin issued a special order of the -
day telling of the liberation of
Sumy, vital rail center about 100
miles northwest of Kharkov.
South of Bryansk, the communi
que said, the Russians captured
over 130 populated places In addi
tion to Sumy. The district center
of Grushkovo in the Kursk region -
fell to the advancing Russians.
Kursk Region Freed.
‘ Thus the Kursk region is com
pletely freed from German Fascist
invaders,” said the war bulletin.
Lisichansk is in the middle Do
nets region between Isyum and
Voroshilovgrad, about 37 miles east ,
of the important rail junction of
Slavyansk.
The Donets River point of Slav- •
yanosevsk also fell to the Russians,
along with several other towns in
! the region, indicating that the ‘
breakthrough was at least 30 miles
jacross.
In the Smolensk region the Rus
! sians advanced 4 to 6 miles and
1 captured over 100 populated places, ‘
! the communique said. *
Other Red Army forces attacking
j from the coast of the Sea of Azov
captured the town of Budennovka,
Moscow reported.
The special order was the fourth
j to be issued by Premier Stalin in
I four days as the. Russians rolled
| the German forces" back along the
: 600-mile front from the Smolensk
Moscow road to shores of the Sea
of Azov.
The capture or Sumy carried the
1 Red Army within 185 miles of Kiev
in its westward drive across the
i Northern Ukraine.
The special order said the Rus
sian divisions involved in the fight
ing for the liberation of Sumy would
i be called Sumy divisions hereafter
j "to commemorate the success."
j "For the excellent military opera
i tions and valor I express my grati
! tude to all troops which participated
! in the fighting for the liberation of
Sumy.” Stalin’s order said.
The newest gain in the dead cen
; ter of the sagging Nazi front widen
; ed and deepened the Russian by
pass salient north of Poltava,
tSee RUSSIA, Page A-2.)
British Flyers Blast
Antwerp Canal Locks
Shipping Also Damaged
In Holland Attack
j By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 2.—British Hurri
| cane bombers today destroyed the
lock gates at the south end of the
Hansweert Canal, one of Holland's
: busy waterway links for sea-going
shipping.
The Air Ministry news service an
! nounced tonight that the Hurri
j canes, escorted by Typhoons, scored
'‘bull's-eyes” on the gates.
The lock enabled ships to ap
proach Antwerp without going into
the sea where they would be ex
posed to air and naval attack.
Flying at rooftop height, the
planes smashed through strong
antiaircraft fire to reach the tar
] get. The escorting Typhoons dam
j aged three tugs, a barge and a 400
j ton coastal vessel, and machine
i gunned sentries standing near the
lock gates.
The announcement said the gates
were destroyed, with debris flying
so high in the air that one plane
was damaged while flying through it.
Three Hurricanes and one Ty
phoon were reported missing from
the daylight attack.
Hull Helps Senator
Clear Camera Film
By the Associated Press.
Intervention of Secretary of State
Hull and Treasury Department offi
cials was necessary to permit Sen
ator Butler, Republican, of Nebraska
to take several rolls of colored film
with him when he left Miami for an
unofficial tour of South America.
Senator Butler, due back Saturday
after a 20,000-mile trip, was being
cleared through the customs office
at Miami the evening of July 9 pre
paratory to the start of the trip the
following morning when customs of
ficials noted his camera film, the
Senator's secretary, Paul Hawkins,
related today. They permitted him
to take the camera, but not the film.
‘‘Mr. Hull did not like the idea of
a Senator's film being held up. and
contacted Treasury Department of
ficials. who in turn prevailed upon
the customs officials at Miami to
permit Senator Butler to take his
film with him when he left in the
morning," Mr. Hawkins said.