BUZZ BOMB A ‘DUD’ — Sgt. H. A. Barnet (right) of Montreal and a friend of the FFI
examine a damaged Nasi robot bomb which landed near its launching site in France,
NIP FACILITIES
WRECKED BY
U S. PLANES
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ON
NEW GUINEA, Oct. 13.—(API—
Facilities for supplying Japan’s
war machine with gasoline and
oil were wrecked Tuesday at Ba
likpapan, it was reported today.
One hundred and thirty-five
tons of bombs were dropped by
fighter escorted Liberators.
About 40 planes were shot
down trying to break the heav
iest blow in the war to date at
the vital Borneo base. The crack
ing plant was rendered totally
.perhaps permanently inopera table.
The paraffin refinery was also
heavily damaged.
Today's communique announced
that the heavy explosions and
fires sent smoke 20,000 feet as
slot age tanks were set ablaze.
Photographs conclusively veri
fied the destruction. Thunder
bolts preceded the heavier mid
morning raid, engaging strong
forces of Japanese fighters.
Lightnings formed a close cover
while the bombers pushed
through an intense flak to their
target.
Three bombers of the attacking
force were lost.
WEATHER IS
CAUSE OF NEW
HILL FIGHTING
ROME, Oct. 13.—(AP)—Aided
by warmer weather, heavy fight
ing flared in the hills along the
Florence and Bologna road, after
yesterday’s massive air assault
against Germany’s position in
outh Bologna.
The Fifth Army took more than
300 prisoners, it was reported.
Nearly one-tenth of Holland’s
population has been displaced as
a result of hte war.
ROOSEVELT
DENIED HELP
FROM PETRILLO
WASHINGTON,-Oct. 13.—(AP>
—President Roosevelt said today,
that he would like to do some
thing about the refusal of James
Petrillo’s Musicians Union to
make recordings of the two major
companies, and added that he
would have to look into the law
first.
He told his news conference he
was going into the matter in the
next few days.
A week ago Roosevelt wired Pe
trillo and asked him to lift the
ban. Petrillo declined to do so
unless the RCA Victor and Col
umbia companies sign contracts
wi|th the unidn, as hesaidj the
others had done.
21 NIPPONESE
PLANES ARE
DESTROYED
By CHARLES McMURY
PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 13.—
(AP)—Admiral Nimitz announced
today that Admiral Marc Mitsch
er’s powerful carrier forces des
troyed 21 Japanese planes and
sank 16 ships and damaged 19
more at Formosa, in the fourth
successive blow on the enemy’s
inner defense line.
The Japanese had said that
1,000 U. S. planes aided the is
land which blockades the Chin
ese coast.
Once again Halsey’s mighty
Third Fleet has failed to find the
Japanese warships.
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