r, .- ~~ ~ ~ . , ~ u,,,r,11- ~ he l a te t about the invasion of the Philip ines tells of n a val action giving powerful support to the ground forces that have invaded the island o f Leyte. The aircraft carri e r squadrons of the fleet are hurling their planes in unrelenting attacks against Japanese airfields and shipping lines, to paralyze enemy action against the f or~es •F.,,.,... Th i s ties in with a statement made by General MacArthur, who said that the••• enemy garrison on Leyte would not be able to receive reinforcements, because American air ,1 power would cut its communication lines with the other parts of the Philippines. It's an old story now of how air power can isolate an enemy force, especially one that depends upon supply lines across water. LEAD_- 2. Tonight's picture of t he invasion ef ~h~ ,:,vJ7 ~ shows ~e"l'½C~&R troops driving inland fro m beachheads. ! a ~ The standard pattern ■ rt of tro p ic a 1 is 1 and 1 anding s • ..1Hwt--w.-l",...~""'t:_a_.i-...AW-~ 'I. being extended, widened and deepened, with American jungle tro9ps pushing toward their first important objective -- As oity-ri Tacloban, capital of Leyte ~ llore specifically •tst.F?lijM.t♦ ia--CS the ai base,,~,..baa +.he !Hca nto»y ◄f fl:,tng field-ti, aeing wha\-4crn::gcah first ;n •his •47'+ All reports emphasize ~ ~ M l 1 ! ,ae+-- ~ ~ Japs taken by surprise, and there was a minimum I' of shooting -- save the shooting done by the America warships waioa ~ blasted the landing beaches.t:c %•••i /\.. The g round tzz troops comm a nded by General Krueger incurred only th e light st of cas alties - altho gh the going is expected to become harder, l r i ~ s o o n . ~ Qt last reports the troops were advancing against only light resistance -- the landing forces brought by that armada which General MacArthur has described as the greatest oceanic invasion force in aiasz history.an I ~ ,erce :i• ae i-e +.hrowing iuta-itre-Pitilippin@&- re- said to number two-hund~ed-and-fifty thousand. PHILIPPI E JAP GENER L ________ _____ _ , _____ _ General MacArthur's antagoni ~ t, the comman d er op p osin g hi in the Phili p> ines, is~ formidable Japanese War Lord - Field arshal Jui ch i Terauchi. That sixty-five year old militarist is one year ol e r than Chrthur, and comes from a famous Jap a nese Army family, son of Count Terauchi who was an imp o rtant commanding general in the Russo-Japanese war. zr~~~ab..£.JJI sorts of high commands, and ha& been closely associated with Nazi Germany -- having been Japanese representative at the big Hitler rally in Nuremburg, just as the European war broke out. 0 • I r l' I • I, . L.t • -- ----- -- -- - . ~ r' hi l i ~ 1 n e ~ p r o · u c e d an o t r o · tho ~ e dr n m t ic turn s o w u r. " he .... are fi tin a a in t t e i ft e nt h ivi sio 1 o the Japanese rlrmy. nd what that means can be best told b ~ quoting General acArthur. Here~ what he, on the wa " •~•tx~•Jxm~xiux••J to the inv a sion, told Unit e d Press Correspondent , ~illiam v. i kinson: " I am pa rt i t' u 1 a r 1 y an x i o us , " s · · id ~ · .! c rt h u r , to get a t th ivision which is on Leyte. lt is the fifteent, t he outfit that did the dirty work at Bataan. hey hav been livin° on the fat of the land for more than ~wo years," he went on, "And I b lieve they'll be little softer no w . But, soft or not, we'll et th m." . It w· s the Fifteenth Japanese Divi ion that overw he lmed the outnum ered ~mericans in the heroic but o pel e defense of Bataan, which ac rt h ur comm nded. n it wa th r ' ift ee nth ivi i n that rutalized and r e r e r of r. r i . i re 8 a It .i . iD , , ~- i n V OU i t · dt ti c h h m ri "an a r 0 ., n i.o 0 t even . nd n t 1 v · 1n i '-' n r. 0 . L " e ' the V ~ i hm eric a1 i' i r. ms lv co fron e t, a t s e ift e nt i Vi 1 • MO 'e. a-i me e--i,._g i. e-s-s- Me G.A P t httti aae p iek"e4- ~et !>"flSi-ett-+cr: t!Pl!.aae e~~ tr-hat gaiig waQ there • .......-8'24- ~~ a.o .. -.. 1..e t /' w selected for t inv sion for la rt1e s g ic r ea n : and t . presebce of the Fift enth ivisi n 1s e ntir ly a matter of ch a nce - the kind of coincidence that mak e s for flamin m . lodr..ma. 11e lin o tr ate that pointed to Leyte was outlined by en e r 1 acA rthur to Uni t ed ress 4 orres on ae nt uic in on. " ' ,e h a ~e," s a i d ~ "&.c i v eu co m lete su _ rise, in the fullest milit ry s ense. ~ ~ up ex e ted a n attack on 1n na o or in t e or tne r t" i p i ne • 1 e i r st ciivisi)ns ad been conce trate on i a ao , n d t h ir r e i n orcem e s aa been en~ there." ILLJ r ·• - 3 ---------- e American strate y 0 t Q/ he ex lained , was lsey's carrier p l ne attacks were hurled against Luzon in th # North, while MacArthur's own Ai Forces concentrated on Mindanao, in the ~outh. bo the Japs ~ ~ : , , invasion at either one or the other. ~ M a c A r t h u r ~ struck place strai gh t at the middle -- e+ the lJ6i8 isl a n d of Wli¥&ei&R ~hruat--- s - t • i ~ ~ between the two main concentrati~na of Japanese t rces. "There are," said acArthur, "About two-h dred-and-twenty-five thousand enemy combat troops n the fhilippines . ur Leyte andin Another intensely Qramatic phase of the to which Philippine .lnv a sion is the degre.i('it is a personal Machrthur hf air. ~n that epic of valor, the defense of Bataan , acJtrthur's personality was f e atured -- vivid, pr oud, inclin d to the {i trionics of war and _JLLIPl __ _ the pa e · n t o f t.he ____;1..--- - - - : . art hfien resident oos e v elt or ered him out of th hopel ss defense t&Q of b taan, a c arth u took itAas part o f a personal mission as i ned to ~~ ~ he mission of reconQuering the hilippines. tt d one of -'-a most wi ely uoted utterances GL>t"'9 was~ what he said when he arrived in ~ W'CJ"'-< e..,;tL· L st ni ~t a t ~ Movietonw~~~ tre-.:_---7 -aa1re■8led ~.t· ~ures to illustrate the headline of the hour -- the invasion oft.he Phi lippines. In t.hese e featured · acArthur's Declaration in Australia, when he declared: •1 shall return," And he said some few things about the J a ps in the Philippines, a n ~ ~ e d : "I shall r~urn. • Pis sense of mission is hinted at in a - - - dis at.ch today ·•h ich tells how ~acArthur,sailing in the Invasion, was o ffe red a life belt. "o thank you,",he replied, "I have too much faith in this ship or th a t." :..;P= __ L LIJ__ - 5 It , a a c m lim e nt to the vessel, a cruiser, b ut the ship' of i rs felt th t there was more than that in the back of ac rthur's mind. hey thought that his refusal of a life belt, his disregord for ersonal S&f e ty, was ased on an implicit b lief that it was his destiny to liberate the 1-'hilippines, and that nothing could appen to prevent it. Be couldn't be kille until his hilippine Mission had been fulfilled. All of which is the MacArthur p roclamation radio message to the -------.....;:~ Philippine eople. resident Osmena, ana accompanying the expediti every living defender of Bataan who got away. addressed to the ~ hilippine People these stately wor s: "I have r he oroclaimed. "By the grace of Almi g hty God, our force stands again on ¥hilippine oil, soil cons e crated by the blood of our two Peoples." n then he 1ssued the call: " Ral l FOLLO!_gHILlf!:!NES President Roosevelt this afternoon spoke high praiae of u neral tz MacArthur and told soae things about the planning of the Philippine invasion. Be said that several plans had been discussed for ■ any months, and that he had gone over them with Generai MacArthur and l ■ a■ zaixli Admiral Nimitz during his trip to Hawaii in July. The plan now ,..-into effect was decided upon af~er the presidential trip. One of t h strange things is the way the J ps continue to press their f a ntastic c la im of 8 great .Nava 1 V i ct or : • 'l' h ey ' re now t.'y i ng th i s t o t he I n v as ion of the Pa ilippines. Today Tokio P ropag nda took the line that the ~acbrthur Drive into the Is lands is to hide the fact that Admi r al H alsey's Third Fleet was destroyed in Battle off Formosa - the occasion when the ikado's Fleet appeared, but immediately retired. The Tokio hopper goes on to say that the Philippine lnvasion was ordered by President Roosevelt to cover up what Tokio calls •The Formosa Defeat.• And the Jape scale the heights of the fabulous by explaining that it 'ts all part of the a~ ~,.ec~.f(~ President's re -e . lee tion campa-ign"- •e A11Ni:oana a ~ _ . · . ~ ~~ te~---,f·WV"\-&~ ~j lit accustomed to the idea of Candidates emplo• ing all I A, / sorts of dodges to hel their political chances, but the Tokio ~ · heeze is something for t he high r r aches of the O rienta l imagination the fresident of the ,. JAP CLAI ----·--- · - - - nite ~t tes or d ering an invasion to cover up a aval def e at as a way of getting votes. This is even more ima g inative than the okio t a le of the defeat of Halsey's Feet. - o - Today the Japs not only stick to their phony victory claims, but even em ellish them -- with a few more nmerican ~arships sent to the bottom. ► T ese now include eleven aircraft carriers, two battleships, and three cruisers -- more than half of Halsey's warships destroyed, and rest crippled. Admiral Nimitz has, of course, announced that not one American battleship or aircraft carrier was touched, ano only two medium-size ships were even damaged -- cruisers p robably. Yet 1okyo today ives us a dram tic story of the destruction of an Amer1c a n Aircraft Carrier, and a so the death of a Japanese hdmira~ The f a r Eastern enemy has been lo ing a lot o f Admirals in action and the latest announced is h ar Admiral Arima t &1 of the J apa nes a v al Air orce. Accordi to Tolrio, he flew in a bomb er a a1 · nst th ~ m r1·c r.. ns nd cored a suicide succe s. The okio adio st ·i tes: "Arima deliberately cra s hed his o wn pl a ne against a carrier, insta1tly sendin it to ~ he bottom." tt, aybe th whole thing is one of those miracles - the war ips of H lsey's Third ileet being sunk, IESTERN lfillliI The Americans finally captured A h ao en -- this afterno n. After one of the most savage of battle~,..they wiped out the r aaining nest of z■i resistance; and tonight Aachen is completely occupied. It is a city of almost complete ruin, with hardly•• one hundred buildings re ■ aining intact. But one of these is the great cathedral of Aix- la-Chapelle -- that famous edifice of the middle ages. Tonight's dispatches from newspaper men inside of Aachen picture the venerable cathedral as surrounded by a nightmare of ruined buildings. The setting ie - one of t:tr. appalling wreckage,Auniversal destruction with the cathedral standing . almost uninjured. One of the Cloisters was a ■ashed by an - air homb, but this was a new addition to the medieval architecture -- the cloister only fifty years olda, and unimportant. The great octagon, the eight- aided Roman structure, was hardly damaged at all - the cathedral of Aix-la-chapelle survivingr- !ESTERN_U!OHI - 2 But it tas no miracle nothing more supernatural than the accure.Ay of the American bombing and shelling. Aerial bombers and land artillerymen had been instructed tfse every possible precaution to avoid hitting the Cathedral of Aix-La-Chapelle - so taaous in the Charlemagne and the German Emperor~ the Middle l&I••· Ages. LAVA~- In France today a sentenc pronounced against -- Laval. That chief of the pro- Nazi collaborationists who is now in Germany, was 1P condemned to death N◄ "in absentia". li11ilar sentences were pronounced on other French officials who served the Razis) Htost of . . . have taken refuge in Germany. Belgrade . . . captured today{ the capital of Jugoslavia taken by Russian tro o ps and Jugoslav partisans .. a whole week there was savage fighting in the city, but now thehistoric fortress 7P ~ of Belgrade has been o c c u p i e ~ d . • And at the same time, L\l/ I Soviet troops today captured.Athe third largest city in l"liungary -- \hi& after a violent tank battle. The Nazis a n n o ~ ; ~ t Soviet troops have pushed into East Prussia, For days Moscow has been silent while Berlin has been telling about that great Russian offensive ~ - against the province of the I' Junkers~ And now the Germans relate that the Red Army has thrust seven miles into East Prussia and has seized a dozen villages and towns. , iscu~sinj an articl~ -· in a ist ~ I , ,,. y ,r er · n Sto,¢khollll which tells of --an all'f!'i-S " oup that kall has been oi:ganize - d in the $.redisli capital. This group is said to consist uf fugitives from the Baltic states which the Soviets have occupied -- thirty thousand Baltic fugitives. They are anti- Communist and are said to haYe formed a political organization, which includes an exiled government of Estonia, a phantom government. The co11munist newspaper declar'es that the anti-~oviet activity is being tolerated by the Swedish authorities, and goes on to make mention of the American legation in Stockholm. The story is that ' one of ' ' the llinieters of the phantom Estonian government has the same name as an employee of the American legation. The demand is made of the United States llinieter to give an explanation. Also, there's a further charge that another member of the American Legation has contributed 11oney to the anti-~oviet organization. BULL Secretary of State Cordell Bull is ill and will soon go to a hospital fz ■ for a physical check-up. For the past three weeks the Secretary bas been absent from bia office because of a throat, irritation, and now the ~ecretary who is aeventy- three, will be looked over by the doctor• at the naYal hospital. GUAIAM4L4 The government of Guatamala has been overthrown -- in another Central American revolution. A dispatcb froa Guataaala .:,.ity states that the revolt was staged by young officers aided by civilians and students. The inaurrectos used tanks in their a1aault against the governaent after aoae violent ifa fighting. which they overthrew The hurricane has turned out to be ■uch less of a demon of wind than the last one. Cuba and Florida were blasted heavily by the tropical teapest, and people along the East Coast of the United States were stirred to vivid recollection of the big wind that raised havoc as far north as Rew England soae weeks ago. However, this latest one, while it ca ■• in lite a lion, is going oat -- well, not exactly lite a lamb, but lite just an ordinary storm. And now Bugh, a few breezy words fro ■ 1ou. fEARL.HAj!BOR The findings of the Navy court in v estigated the responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster will not be made public. This was announce tonight by Secretary of the Navy Forreatal, who state that he has received the report and that its contents are classified•• by the Navy as •secret• and •top- secret•. The report presumably goes a long way in fixing the reaponsibilit1 hr the surprised the Jape were able to spring on that fateful December Seventh - and this is a subject of auch public concern. But some of it is secret and the rest of it is aore secret. The Aray, too, baa been oondueting its own investigation of Pearl Barbor responsibility, but thus far we have had no inkling of the Army · findings - secret or top-secret. - 0 ~ " · J ~ ~ - - , ~ ~~