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Lt.IIolden Deceives Medal and Cluster For Aerial Combat An Eighth AAF Fighter Station, England, May 22. First Lieutenant Paul C. Holden, 1829 Whitehall street, was recently awarded an Air Medal and one Oak Leaf Clus ter lor, meritorious service in aerial flight in the completion of twenty operational missions over occupied continental Europe," at a ceremony held on his Eighth AAF Fighter Command air base, "Somewhere in England." A 47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot, Lt. Holden, 30 years old, has been on combat operations since this past winter. He received the medal from his commanding officer, Colonel James J.

Stone, of Westfield, N. J. Lt. Holden group has now flown over 180 combat missions to the most heavily defended territory in the world, and has been "operational" since April of 1943. The group has accompanied American Flying Fortresses and Liberators to targets deep within Germany, France and a good section of occupied Europe, and has protected the huge bombers while they made their bombing runs, then 'taken the 17's and 24's all the way back to English bases in the face of concerted attacks by hordes of German fighters.

The group has now destroyed more than 175 German planes, and has maintained an impressive ratio of wins to losses since going into combat over here in England. Re cently Lt. Holden's group has gone out as "Thunder dive bombers, hitting air fields in France while carrying 500 lb. bombs. Lt.

Holden was a flying instruc tor prior to enlisting in the RCAF, He transferred to the U.S.A.A.F in December, 1943. His wife, Mrs. Menzenita Holden resides in Harrisburg and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.

Holden at 126 North Front street, Wormleysburg. Uptown Gunner Wins Cluster An Eighth AAF Bomber Station, England, May 22. A third Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal has been awarded Technical Sgt. Fran cis X. Kirby, 2118 North Sixth street, waist gunner on a 17 Fly ing Fortress, for "meritorious achievement" on bomber attacks on enemy Europe.

The citatibn accompanying the award read in part: "The courage, coolness and skill displayed by this enlisted man upon these oc casions reflect great credit upon himself and the armed forces of the United States." Sgt. Kirby, 21 years old, son of Dr. and Mrs. Harry Kirby, has taken part in more than a score of combat missions. A graduate of William Penn High School in 1940, he was a machinists apprentice be fore entering the service Septem ber 5, 1942.

His brother Harry is a military policeman stationed at Ft. Myer, Va. City Man Named Science Director At Pratt Institute The appointment of Prof. Nel son b. Hibsnman, of this city, head of the department of elec trical engineering at New York University, as director of the School of Science and Technology of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, was announced today by the institute's president, Charles Pratt.

Prof. Hibshman, a graduate of the Harrisburg Technical High bchool in 1920, attended Pennsyl vania State College where he was graduated. He began his teaching career at Lehigh University in 1924 while working for his master of science degree. Later he became assistant professor and associate professor of electrical en gineering at Lehigh. He went to New York Univer sity as head of the electrical de partment in 1942.

He is a mem ber of Tau Beta Pi honorary en gineering fraternity and Sigma XI honorary scientific fraternity. In 1941 42 he was vice president of the American Institute of Electric Engineers. Fund Established For Legion Office An appropriation of $5000 has' been authorized by the national executive committee of the Amer ican Legion to hire an architect and a special professional counsel to formulate and study plans for permanent additional office space at both the Indianapolis and Washington headquarters of the American Legion, State Com mander Frank X. Murray said today. The State of Indiana has already adopted a resolution to provide an ppropnation of $16,000,000 for the Indiana World War Memorial Iproject to be completed by the erection of a companion building to the present national American ILegion staff there, Commander Murray said.

The enrollment of the Legion a quarter of a million ahead of last year and increasing rapidly, Commander Murray said, and ad ditional space is needed. uptown 3f an Injured as Auto Hits Tree John Moyer, 56 2013 North pifth street, an employe of L. B. Smith, Camp Hill, remained in a enous condition at the Polyclinic Hospital where he was admitted Saturday evening from injuries suffered when his auto crashed nto a tree and lamp post at Front and Reily streetts, hospital attend ants reported. Attendants said he has frac ui es of the right elbow, left leg.

ight ribs and a possible fractured skull. HARRISBURG SECOND SECTION From Iceland to Africa, from 135 mile an hour gales on barren islands to tornd jungles, Middletown's pretty Pat Cranford has traveled more than 90,000 miles to en tertain approximately a mil lion soldiers, sailors, and ma rines stationed at front line bases. area. Home at 426 Ann street for a breather after her last trip abroad which included England, Ireland and Scotland, Pat, who can mo nopolize anybody's spotlight with her rhythmic singing, related a few of her exciting experiences during the tours which have taken her over a big chunk of the North American, European and African continents. Her urge to provide entertain ment for American G.

began when her three brothers, Howard and Robert in the Army and Charles in the Navy, entered the service. 'I felt I ought to do something, too," said Patty, who packed her bag, hopped a plane to New York and signed with the USO shows. Her schedule started with Greenland, where she was the first American woman the soldiers had seen in two and one half years, and then to Iceland. Here Patty saw a tree built entirely of tin, constructed by the bovs who were "lonely for some thing that resembled home." Their loneliness was evident because, as Pattv savs. "when we first landed some of the boys came up ana touched my hair and exclaimed, 'Gee, a real live Since all the boys were stationed at far flung points around the island, Patty and the other enter tainers were escorted on board an Icelandic barge, only means of transportation in reaching an iso lated tip on the island.

Lassoed to Safety As Patty recalled the story: "When we were about midway in the channel, the gale warnings sounded, which meant high winds We didn't know what to expect, but we soon found out. It was too late to turn back and so the skip per took a chance on making it to the other side, we did, tnanK goodness, but upon landing the gale reached its peak of intensity. "We saw huts sailing tnrougn the air like feathers. I thought we were going to be blown away. A G.

I. came running from one of the recreation huts and fash ioned, a big lasso. He. literally lassoed us and pulled us the tent." Vivacious Patty's most exciting experience came on her last trip when she was aboard a plane bound for a remote Army station in the northern part of Ireland. 'While we were en route, we ran into ireezmg weainer.

ine de icers on the plane wing would not operate and a two inch thick sheet of ice "formed. The plane lost altitude rapidly because of the heavy ice and everybody aboard kept thinking this was their last flight. Thanks to the pilot and crew, who worked feverishly, the de icers were repaired, and even though we were hours late, we did get there. Escapes Bomb Hit Pat added a narrow escape to her adventures when she was in England. A German bomb struck a house adjacent to the hotel where she was quartered and com pletely demolished the rear of the building.

Awakened by the English guns, Pat was thrown from her bed by the impact. And as she put it, "That's some alarm clock." While she was in England, she experienced two air raids a day for eight weeks. In Scotland, Pat waited two hours and then drove 90 miles to have "ham and eggs" for breakfast. "I was so hungry for good Amercian food .1 would have driven 900 miles and waited 200 hours. I closed my eyes while I was eating, and I felt just like I was home in my mother's kitchen in Middletown." On Pat's Caribbean tour she visited Dakar, and in the Virgin Islands stayed overnight in Bluebeard's Castle.

And how did she rest in the ex chamber of horrors? "I slept like a log after disposed of myi, greeter." Seems Pat was met by, not Bluebeard, but a giant cockroach. Other places Pat has covered include Brazil, Newfoundland, Puerto Rico, British, Dutch and French Guiana and Canada. With Cagney and O'Brien Pat has worked with Jimmy Cagney and Pat Brien on the tours, but celebrities were no new experience, however, for she for merly sang with the orchestras of Larry Clinton. Johnny Long and Les Brown. Pat's brothers are now stationed in America and Alaska.

Sgt. Howard L. is a member of the "Winged Victory" cast, the Army Air Forces show. He will leave for the West Coast the latter part of the month to take part in the filming of the revue. Staff Sgt.

Robert is now physical instructor at Coral Gables with an Air Corps unit, and Lt. Com. Charles B. is recreation and athletic officer in the Alaskan Motley Appointed to Santa Fe Position Arthur W. Motley, former State Director of the Pennsylvania State Employment Service, Harrisburg, has been named direc tor of employment, a newly created position, with the Santa Fe Railway, with headquarters in Chicago.

His past experience included director of the Bureau of Place ment of the War Manpower Com mission, Washington, D. di rector of the State Employment bervice in brie; employment consultant for the city of New York, and bocial Security Board of Washington, D. C. Memorial Committee to Complete Plans The general Memorial Day Committee of Harrisburg will meet in the veterans room. City Hall, to night at 7.30 to com plete plans for the annual memorial Sunday church services on May 28 at the Grace Methodist Church and parade and services at the Harrisburg Cemetery on Memorial Day morning, May 30.

Stair Qimb Too Much They'll Carry Lunch Employes at City Hall today took an added bit of exercise with a grin and bear it attitude as they hiked up and down four flights of steps. The elevator will be out of service for a week while the shaft is extended to the basement and workers started today to carry lunch buckets to avoid the stair climb at noon. llershey Man Head Of AFL Council The Pennsylvania Council of Public Employes (AFL) at its clos ing session yesterday in the Penn Harns Hotel elected George Schmeltzer, Hershey, as president for another term. Other officers are: first vice president, John C. MCK.eever, Philadelphia; secre tary, Miss Helen M.

Hergenroeder, ratsDurgti; treasurer, Lalio Tar taglin, Harrisburg; vice presidents without rank who, with the officers, composed the executive com. mittee, Jerome J. Cassidy, Scran ton; Raymond Fisher, Reading Samuel Frankel, Bethlehem; Frank Shivy, Wilkes Barre; Michael N. Acquaviva, Pittsburgh; William J. Jennings, Greensburg.

Reuben H. Miller, Harrisburg, was appointed director of the organization, composed of State and city employes of Pennsylvania, and Robert P. Lonergon, Harrisburg, business and international repre sentative. U. S.

Senator James J. Davis was speaker at the banquet in the hotel Saturday evening. Yugoslavs Dattle flazis in Various Croatian Sectors our London, May 22, WP) Marshal Josip Broz (Tito) announced to day his Yugoslav Partisans were engaged in heavy fighting in various sectors in Croatia, where uerman and Ustashi (puppet) troops are exerting strong pressure in the Lika river valley. His broadcast communique said an enemy offensive in Banija had been repulsed. In Eastern Bosnia Partisan units were declared to have smashed an enemy column on the Sokolac Mokro sector destroying half the enemy troops and taking the other half prisoner.

Partisan units held the initiative in Solventa, the communique said, while near the boundary between Hercegovina and Montenegro fighting continued at the town of Trebinje. Declaring that the German air force was very active in Croatia, Bosnia and Vojvodina, the way bulletin said that "several inhabited localities were recently destroyed and the number of vie tims is very great." Tito announced that Allied planes, supporting a penetration move by the Partisans, had de stroyed the railway station and a gasoline dump in the Bosnian town of Bihac on May 17. Allied naval units were declared to have destroyed one German ship near Pedjasec and damaged another. Vespers Conducted Lock Haven, May 22. The senior class of the Lock Haven State Teachers' College conducted the annual senior vespers at the college auditorium last evening.

Pre commencement activities will mark the week concluding with the baccalaureate service Sunday morning at which Dr. Charles Coxe, of the local faculty, will be the speaker, and the commence ment exercises in the afternoon with degrees in education given by Dr. R. T. Parsons, president, and the address by Dr.

Frank Davis, head of the education department of Bucknell Treasury Receipts Washington, May 22, (PWThe position of the Treasury May 19: Receipts, $100,514,614.08. Expenditures, $336,129,426.62. Net balance, $10,064,336,087.06. TELEGRAPH HARRISBURG, MONDAY EVENING. MAY 22, 1944 Middletown Entertainer Puts Song in Soldiers9 Hearts As She Visits Lonely Outposts on 90,000 Mile Journey HER SONGS CHEER SOLDIERS IN HOSPITALS AND CAMPS Middletown's pretty Pat Cranford makes a family foursome helping win the war (two brothers in Army, one in Navy).

She signed up for USO service overseas, has traveled 90,000 miles. Here she's singing in one of the Caribbean island hospitals; in the inset, chatting 'off stage' with some of the boys in Iceland. Prohibitionists Suffer Setback; Postpone Hearings Washington, May 22. (vP) Congressional prohibitionists got a set back today as a House Judiciary Subcommittee postponed sched uled hearings on a wartime anti liquor bill and an informal poll of committee members showed at least half of them opposed to the legislation. Chaiman Hobbs (D Ala) said no date had' been set for further hear ings in support of the bill intro duced by Representative Bryson (D SC) and "all I can say is that there won't be any hearings any time soon." This, another committee mem ber declared, "probably means no hearings until after the congressional elections, because this bill is too hot to handle during an elec tion campaign.

Three of the six sub commit tee members who hold the fate of the bill said privately they were against it, and a fourth, who was out of town, was represented by his colleagues as being opposed. Bryson office had no explana tion for concellation of the hear ing set for today, at which the Carolinian had planed to present group of industrialists to testify about the evil effects of drinking on the productive capacity of war workers, especially on Monday mornings and mornings following pay days. His measure, which would be in enect for the duration of the war, proposes to curb absenteeism among war workers by outlawing all beverages containing more than one half of one per cent. of alcohol. Representative Celler (D NY), a leader of the anti prohibition forces on Capitol Hill, a weekend statement warned his followers that "dry pressure will force additional hearings." State Sends 800,000 Into Service, Martin Tells 28th A.

E. G. Society Boalsburg, May 22, (). Pennsylvania has sent almost 800,000 men into the armed services and poured masses of materials, food and fuels into the global conflict in efforts which "have not been equalled by any political subdivision of the entire world," Governor Martin declared yesterday. The Executive spoke at annual memorial services of the Society vtflTAA a FIaima of the 28th Division at its spring shrine here.

Tablets were dedicated to six division officers who died in the First World War Capt. Edmund W. Lynch and Lts, Lloyd T. Grubbs, Frederick B. Pritchett, Thomas A.

Holden, Earl Leroy Reese and Jacob Feldman. Martin, who served in France in the First World War, declared that "never was morale more im portant than in this war." He said German morale will neither break nor weaiten until the Nazi army is defeated and driven back. Referring to the fall of France. the Governor asserted "sectional strife and class hatred will destroy any government; no matter how sound that government may be." Beware the preachers of class hatred and apostles of section alism," he declared. "If America ever listens to them it will lose its birthright and its national soul." Martin said that "we.

here at home, are listening to too much and talking too much," adding "it would be better for us all if we ate less, walked more and talked less about our fears and troubles." Their Delegates; Dewey Sets Pace earthquake. By Associated Press Selection of convention delegates starts rolling down the home stretch this week with Gov Thomas E. Dewey of New York setting a fast pace for the Republican Presidential field and President Roosevelt coasting along with the Democratic nomination assured him if he wants it. Six states will select delegates; beginning with Texas Democratic and Republican conventions tomorrow. Florida will settle its governorship contest with a run off Democratic primary and North Carolina will pick a Democratic Senatorial nominee to succeed Senator Reynolds (D), who did not choose to run.

The Texas Democratic meeting. bringing fourth term and anti groups into a collision over the state's 48 convention votes. promises nreworks. The Republi cans will pick 33 delegates, with Dewey and Gov. John W.

Bricker, ot umo snowing strength. Mary land Republicans also will select 16 delegates tomorrow, with the odds that most, if not all, will be tor Dewey. Dewey delegate totals as the week began were 357 pledged and claimed, with Bricker's 62 putting mm in second place. In the Florida primary Tuesday, Millard Caldwell, a former Con gressman, will battle it out with Rep. Lex Green for the Democra.

tic nomination which usually can be turned automatically in November for an election certificate, Wednesday will find North Dakota Republicans picking 11 delegates, who may be uninstruct ed. Supporters of Lieut. Comdr, Harold E. Stassen have some hope of wedging in a delegate or two among the majority expected to support Dewey. Georgia Republicans will pick 14 delegates Friday, with one district representative already having been sewed up for Dewey.

Connecti cut Democrats will start a two day meeting the same day, picking a delegation that will cast 18 votes. Utah Democrats will name 10 Saturday. The same day North Carolina members of the party nominate a successor for Reynolds, pick their candidate for governor, and name choices for 12 seats in the House of Representatives in a primary that will leave the No vember election only a formality unless it is preceded by a political 1. Senator Holman (R defeated for the Oregon Republican Senatorial nomination, refused to say last night whether he would support the successful candidate, Wayne L. Morse, former member of the War Labor Board, in the No vember election.

'0 Tons Paper Collected By Boys in City Drive Although threatening weather conditions prevented many per sons from placing bundles of waste paper in front of their homes on Saturday, members of the Boys Club and student groups from the Edison and Camp Curtm Junior High Schools gathered ap proximately 70 tons of paper and cartons in the city Saturday with the aid of trucks furnished by the junk dealers of Harrisburg. Boy Scouts in Paxtang under the direction of Scoutmaster Walter Heck collected 10,650 pounds of paper. Figures on the collec tion in Zone 14 north of the city, will not be available until late today. PAGE II Judge Rupp Talks At Celebration Of Patriotic Day Judge J. Paul Rupp, Naturalization jurist of the Dauphin County Court, delivered the principal address at the I Am An American Day celebration in Chestnut Street Auditorium yesterday, attended by more than 125 Italo Amencans, under the sponorship of Italian lodges.

Other speakers included District Attorney Carl B. Shelley; Col. H. L. Grimes, New Cumberland Re ception Center; and Domenico Stivale, while the Rev.

Charles Rueve, St. Francis Catholic Church, offered prayer. The sponsoring organizations were Lodge Carlo Alberto No. 272, Order Sons of Italy in America; Royal Italian Musical Club, Lodge Quarta Italia, Order of Sons of Italy Independent, Societa Italiana Independente, all of Harrisburg; Lodge San Michael No. 329, Or der of Sons of Italy in America, San Michael Society and Steelton Italian, all of Steelton.

Another Americanism Day pro gram was held yesterday by air raid wardens of Post 47 at the Harrisburg Academy of Medicine. with 100 persons present. The prin. cipal speakers were Miss Lily Gans, Chicago, a returned missionary from China, and Thomas Evans, senior counsel for the State Department of Highways. The Rev.

Anthony Vigna, Walter L. Kuhn, W. H. Runk, and the Rev. W.

G. Bowers participated on the pro gram. Paulette Goddard Wed Captain Meredith Beverly Hills, May 22, (JP) Actress Paulette Goddard chose a garden as the background for a simple ceremony yesterday in which she was married to Captain Burgess Meredith, former actor now with the Army Air Forces ihe blue eyed film star wore a natural colored linen dress of long empire style and had a gold chain bound around her hair for the ceremony in the garden of Pro ducer David O. Selznick's home Captain O. Stanley Brown, Army Air Force's chaplain, officiated.

One of the seven guests for the occasion was the bride's mother, Mrs. Alia uoddard. Mrs. Selz nick was matron of honor. Tribute Is Paid Merchant Seamen For Role in War Washington, May 22, (ffi) This war busy nation took time out today to fete its Merchant Marine, tne largest any nation ever boast' ed; By Congressional Act and Presidential proclamation, it's Maritime Day 125th annivers ary of the sailing from Savannah, ot the 100 foot Savannah, the iirst ship to use steam propulsion on an trans ocean voyage.

ine anniversary, which former ly was largely confined to seaport cities, went inland, since com ponent parts for ships, as well as sea going vessels, now are beine maae lar away from the coasts. Credit for fitting the first ocean vessel with auxiliary steam power goes to Captain Moses Roeers of new London, after watching the success of river'and coastal ocean steamers Captain Rogers conceived the idea of using steam as an auxiliary to sails on a trans ocean voyage. I Finally he found support for his idea in Savannah, where a shipping firm put up the money. vlwenty mne days after he de parted from Savannah, his little ship reached Liverpool. Observing a cloud of black smoke, the citizens made ready to rescue the crew.

Instead of burning up. the savannah went on to Norway and oacK to the United States. The observance, President Roosevelt's proclamation said, is to recognize the "patriotism, cour age, sacrifice and labor" of those who have already given their lives those who daily risk their lives on our ships "traversing dangerous seas to carry men and materials to the far flung battle fields. Firemen Arrange July 4th Program The city's Fourth of July celebration in Reservoir Park this year will feature the crowning of a Queen and her court, along with varied entertainment for young ana oia, u. u.

biyder, contest chairman for the event, reports. Ihe celebration is being sponsored by members of the Pleasant View Fire Company in co operation with Park Director Robert C. Leitner. Paul Beck is chairman of the decorations committee and A. E.

McHenery will have charge of entertainment. Officers in the company in addition to Slyder are J. P. Watts, president; William Mountz, vice president; C. O.

Tritt, treasurer, and trustees. RIVER BULLETIN Towanda 16 Wilkes Barre ii West Branch: Clearfield 10 Renovo 16 Lock Haven ..21 Williamsport 20 Juniata River: Map. Depot 20 Newport 22 Susquehanna: Sunbury 16 Harrisburg 17 Trace. IS Feet enth 2 .07 2 3 2 4 8.S 3 2 7 5 4 2 7 4.4 4 2 3 2 2 6 4 4 .72 .08 .11 .05 .32 .08 .04 .06 City Nurse Cited With Unit in Italy Lt. Beatrice Zentmeyer, a city Army nurse now on duty somwhere in Italy, is a member of a unit recently commended for bravery and service by their commanding officer, Col.

Raymond Scott, fthe Medical Corps. LT. BEATRICE ZENTMEYER Six More Listed In Ranks of Blood Donor Gallon Club Six more blood donors joined the Gallon Club at the Harris burg Red Cross Blood Donor Service, Front and South streets, over the weekend by making their eighth donations. Included in the list are Mrs. Emma Mae Wilt, 1157 Derry street; H.

W. Pipp, 550 Bosler avenue, Le moyne; Ralph Garrett, 2742 North Sixth street; B. Singer, 613 West Chocolate avenue, Her shey; J. M. Moyer, Orwigsburg, and Mrs.

Leo Ramsey, 2 Linn street, Progress. Accompanying Mrs. Ramsey was her hnsband who made his third donation. She has a brother and six nephews in the service. Private Donald Snyder, 117 Third street, New Cumberland, home on furlough from Camp Johnston, Florida, made a do' nation at the center Saturday.

He was accompanied by his wife, four sisters and a sister in law and each made blood donations. Mrs. Arthur Kelly, 209 Third street, New Cumberland, one of the sisters, made her sixth dona tion. L. C.

Stoner, 2427 Reel street, made his second donation in honor of his brother, Pfs. Eugene Coover, Enola, who served with the infantry in the South Pacific and is now stationed in the European theatre. Nine employes of the Harrisburg Railways Company also made donations Saturday. Soldier Is Honored Trevorton, May 22. A Mother's Day, dinner was served in the home of Mrs.

Leona Schleig. West Cameron, Thursday, in honor of her son, Sergeant Chester G. Schleig of Fort Ord, who is spending a furlough with his mother. "There was no particular glamour in our experiences," he said when referring to the unit's being under fire in North Africa. "Every night the Germans would come over with planes and circle us.

We were ordered not to shoot unless we were attacked. Nurses and the rest of us rolled into fox holes and wore helmets continually as flak would come right through our tents." Lt. Zentmeyer, who traveled 1280 miles across Morocco, Algiers and Tunis in a convoy of two and one half ton trucks and wearing fatigue clothes and GI shoes, is the daughter of Mrs. B. A.

Reeser, 1417 Vernon street. Col. Scott, recently returned from overseas duty, sent a personal letter to Mrs. Reeser in which he told her of Lt. Zent meyer's faithful service and work on the battlefronts of Africa and Europe.

He reported she was one of a team of nurses working around the clock in North Africa, at which time they handled as many as 900 patients. Lt. Zentmeyer, a graduate of the Polyclinic Hospital School for Nurses, has been in the Army since November, 1942. She completed three months' training at Camp Swift, before leaving for overseas duty in March, 1943. Body of Escaped Inmate Is Found Danville, May 22.

(JP). The body of George Brewster, who escaped from Danville State Hospital May 13, was recovered from the Susquehanna River about one half mile west of here yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hartman, of Riverside, who were fishing in a boat, saw the body floating past, dragged it to shore and notified Sheriff William Fryling.

Robert Sethler, who escaped with Brewster, was apprehended a short time later and returned to the institution. Chinese Complete Initial Phase' of Drive Into Burma Chungking, May 22. (IP) Chinese forces striking westward from the Salween river in Yunnan Province have "successfully concluded" the "initial phase" of their strong offensive aimed toward north Burma, the Chinese high! command declares. No elaboration of the victory statement was given, but a com munique yesterday said one Chinese column had repulsed reinforced enemy forces which coun ter attacked Friday at Mamien Pass, north of the Burma Road. Bitter fighting raged for several hours.

The Chinese command said the situation was unchanged in Honan Province, where lastreports said the Japanese were besieging Loy ang, ancient Chinese capital, and Chinese were cutting down the enemy's hold on the Peiping Han kow railway. Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters announced that American Liberators attacked radio station on Pratas Island, 190 miles southeast of Hongkong, destroying three buildings and severely damaging another.

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