r,c1r1c
aore
two~••~bita of land in the Palau Group, the oapture
of the aain island, Peleliu,
i•
•irtuallJ ooaplete,
and proaptly the laYJ went*• on to 1el1e aearb7
Today'1 bulletin tel11 u1 the Japa eae
oppoaition waa light, and ao
••r•
iaerloan loa1e1 -
and you can write the two i1land• 4o•n •• oapi re4.
In China the Jape are driving toward another
Aaerican air baae, thia one at Tancbut.
••••J
lne■y
forces are within three
■ ilea
of the tl7in1 field,
while another Japanese
colu■n
ha1 drawa
clo1er to
the
key
military center of
tweilin, where
i ■erican
air baae inatallationa
have already been 4e1tro7el.
Thia is the latest in the unfavorable••••
fre■
China, where the Japa ha•• a two-fold
offen ■ i••
under
way --
■ triking fro ■
the north and
fro ■
the 1outb
along the railroad
tro■ J4anho•
to Canton.
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aussTITUII
LEAD IESTEBI FBOIT
News
fro ■ the western front tella of a Ger■aa
■■
thrust across the Rhine near the citJ of Arnbea.
After the
eli ■ ination
of the British Bed DeYil
paratroopers, the lazia though the1 wolil try a riYer
crossing thrust of their own.
TbeJ got
acroaa the
Rhine, establishing a bridgehead -- but ihat ••• only
an invitation to di1a1ter. Britiah troop• hit the
Iasis hard, and tonight'•
news ie
that the
Geraan
force that got across the Rhine
baa been wiped
out.
Thia was quick action and a eharp ••••
saooe11,
but the real focua of the war t~day ••• not
up
there
i
th
th
·
B lland
The focus
of
battle on
n
e nor
--
1n
o
•
the western front baa shifted abruptly
fro ■
one end
of the line to the other
fro ■
the
extreae no•th
to
the extreae south)
fhare
-4he-A ■ e»iean
1<11
a
I
r at. e
-=
e
t
1ic:
ll§AJRI [BOIT
tar 1out.h
•• the
•••••x•Sxl
border of Switserland.
There, the Aaerican tore•• launched
a
bil
attack, an assault. driYiDS in~o the Belfort Gap,
an open corridor between ri••• of bi&b areund -
&a
:a
;,.-,
lead• to the Geraan frontitralon1 th• lower
"
Rhine.
The new offensive is bein& hurled
by
two
A ■erican
armies - the third under General Patton, and
the Seventh under ~eneral Patch. Thie latter i• the
lranco-Aaericao
tu
force that invaded Soutt!{f'rance
ll§TiRN
FRO~~ - 2
and drove all the way north t
th
0
e fighting line
in the battle for Geraany.
The assault ia on
a
•k
hundred
aile
front
between the Fortress of Metz and the city of Belfort.
And today it scored an advance of fi•e
ailea _
aaainat
the aost stubborn kind
of
Geraan defense. It'•
a
■l••J
clash of armour. le hear of eiaht7-two
enea1
tank•
knocked out in the initial pha••• of the fiahtina.
And advance foroea of the third and ••••nth
arai••
-
-
-
are now within thirty-nine
ailes
of the lower en~f
the Siegfried Line - along the Rhine.
0
One of the aide showa of the battle of G
eraan7
appears • i th draaa tonight, at Calai•• That •• aeaport,
together with two others, ia still held b7 the
Geraana
along the Channel Coast. Enea7 garrison• at Calais,
at Dunkirk, and at another harbor are still holding
out - after having been isolated ever since the
Allied drive into the lo• coun\ries. They are fighting
- -
it out to the bitter end, as was
■ade
atrikingl7
evident today in the caafof five thousand Geraans at
U§TIRH
lBQII -
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Mill ,I
IA-
•·u •
ia-411:e fora of •
•••ea, ••
..
■ isiritN-.
6'&,The Canadian force beeie1in1 Calaie araated the
leraans a twenty-tour hour truce tor the purpoae
f1L
aetting the civilian• out - troa fifteen to tweat7
thousand civilians in Calaie. The Canadian
lr■J
ie
prepared to
•
hurl its final e\oraia1 aaaault
a1ain1I
the eeaport, and the Geraana there know it. Tbe7
wanted to get rid
ot
the rreach civiliaa1, the
Canadians agreed, and todaf the civillaaa ••••
atreaaing out - while the fiv ..... thouaaad G
er■ ana
■ade
ready tor a laat
atand.
IAL As
The•e
•ere new landings on the Balkan
COIi.at
today, in Albania. Alao - paratroopers ••re dropped
into Greece. The soldiers of the
aky
are •aid to
-4
-c.-.~
.......
have come down in the.l'Yardar Valley, which lead•
from Greece into Jugoala•ia.
These are the latest
eTenta in that liteat
invasion - the one that•• waa hidden tor
da71, and
is still•• none too visible. Militar7 cen1or1hip
is closely guarding the aecreta of the Allied landiq1
in
the Balkans.
le
are told little
■ore
\han:- •progr1a1
1•
being aade•.
~
Progress
I./
by -,,.•r•J that hae a
na■e
like
the
first letter
ot
the Greek
A. B. C'••
Alfa a1 in
alphabet. Its official
naae
i•
Allied Land P.orce1
of the A4riatic - the initial•
ot
which
ar.e A. L.
r.
A.
We are told that Alta i1 •·••
deYelop■ent
of
special
British-American units in the
Balkan•, which orisinated
1
d
into
co■■ando
with
secret agent work, de•• ope
and have
Do.
become a tull-fladgad
operations,
invading
force.
IALlAIL
Here's
a
ruaor,
unoonfiraed, aa7ia1
that
Jugoelav partiaane have capturid Belarade,
·
the
capital
of Jugoalavia.
i11s011as
·
s
Cbaraea that the
Buliar~
r
ooa■ it\ea
a\r,ooiti••
against captured
Aaerioan
tlier1 were
■ade
toraal
by
a sworn stateaent toda7 - an attida•it •iined bJ a
sergeant in the Air foroea, a young
texan.
Be got oat
ot
Bulgaria at the
ti■•
of the
surrender of that countr7, and
aade
hi1 war to Cairo,
and there he tell• how he and aeY.eral
coeade• were
■altreated
while in a
Bulaari•n
01pital.
Be
hi ■aelf
••• wounded in the toot, and wa1
operated on without anaeathetio.
lhen
he
aoreaaed
fro■
pain he was slapped
by a·nurse,
and
later
a Bul1ariaa
otfi er hit him with a
pistol,
while a
doctor
laqhed.
Be tells of a coarade
A■erican
operated on tor.
abdo■ inal
injuries, and iuediatel7 afterward• ward
boy
dragged
hi■
up to a sltting position and the
stitches burst, and he died. Still another
A■erican
flying man, who had•*• sustained inJuries •a• put
in solitary
oonfine■ent
with no medical care for
tour days - and he died.
These things are sworn to
by
the Sergeant
fro■
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Tex•• - atrocities coaaitt,4 in
a
1atellit• ooutrr
which ainc•
ha• changed
114•••
BQQSiVELT - GERMAIY
-
President RooaeYelt today denied that there baa
been any dispute in hie official faailJ ooaceraiai
the question of •hat ia to be done with OeraaaJ
after the Bitler defeat.
Be aaid the report• \~at
ha•• been circulating are ~uat newapaper atoriaa.
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t•••1 he
i••••• •
••••••1
•••••J,
ut ■•'••
, . ,
....
W.•••
aad b•••
•A•••~•••
at,ai,•••••• •~••• ••,
,Ji••
ooae•••i•1
Q1••••1•
And, at tb1
1aa1
ti•• he
re•ealed that he ha• 1i••n in1truotion1 for a 1t••1
of wa71
to control
G•r■an
induatry - la 1aob a fa1hi8D
that Geraany would not be able to build up a war
aachin• a1ain.
Be
aaid be bad direottd tbe ror1i1n
lcono ■ io
baa been
Adaini1tration to 1peed •Pa 1tad7 \bat it
~~
ukm1 of pl.an• to~ indu1tr1-af,i•- ciel1at1d
Geraan7.
(The inference to be drawn 11 tbat the Pr11ideat
does not appro•e of aaJ plan to aboli1h
Ger■an
indu1tr7 alto1ether.)
The
Du■barton Oaka Conference baa concluded ita
deliberations -- that ia, the first ph•••€t
tbea,
Tba
international palaver at the ••tate near •••hinaton
began
with an Aaerican-Briti1h-i1la1ian affair~
low,
the So•iet delegate steps out, and the Duabarton
Oaka conversation• will continue between the Uaitea
States, Great Britain and China. So what ba1 been
aoco ■pliehed
durina the
luaaian pba••
of
the conferenoe7
Ela
are
aot.
ah••
••:r
apeoitta
f■-••~llle
.._
pooeejin1• •~
Be•~•••••
9ak• •••• •ll••u4••
i•
•••••er
i~tt .
0
t~~-1
►•••••r,
i•
4.iplo ■a~ie
1•aera11
ea.ueuza, •
apparent; there •••
DO
co■pl•t•
asr••••nt
OD
pl••·
for a post-war international
organisation.
downr~.
lOLLO
,DYMBARTOH OAIS
The
ter■ ination
of
the Bua1ian pbaie of the
conference ia followed
proaptly by the beainnina
of
the Chinese
phase -- a Chinese delegate tatiai bi•
place
this afternoon.
He ia
Dootor
lellin1ton Ioo,
and he
proaptly called for the e1tabliahaeat of an
international peace force to
olaap down oa poa1ible
aggressors.
He
ad•ocated
a
f■■
foroe that co• act
pro ■ptly
and without debate.
It i• under1tood, by
the way, that the
iuasian phase
of
the oonfereaoe
turned down the id•• of
a separate
world police
force that would be
e■powered
to aot on order•
fro■
a sort of lea1ue of nations.
lltLER
Bere'• a new weird one about Bitler - how
Der Fuehrer w
a
saved frea a poiaoned cup ot coffee,
saved by an aatrologeer. The account 1
1
atftibated
to a
Ger ■ an
•ho baa Just arrived in ladrid and who
explains that Hitler
ot
late haa beooae addicted to
strong black oottee with lots of augar. Be haa
become something of a coffee aaniac, drinking aa auoh
as twenty large cups a da7.
At the•••• tiae, it ia known tlat the ,-•tioal
Fuerher is a devotee of the occult arts of aatrolo&J•
Be figures things out b7 reading the atara - or at
least, his private astrologer do••• Bitler
■ aintaiaa
an astrological haunt which he call• - the
rooa
of
the stars.
The story•• goes that he••• in the r~o• ot
Wk
the stars, confabulating with hi• private
t
1
h
deep
i
n the calculation of
10■1
as ro oger, • o was
And Bi tler called for one
ot
thoae
horoscope or other.
big cups of ooftee, heavily sug~red.
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2
It was brought to
hia and b
•
• was about to
drink it - but the astrologer
raised bia bead
1udd1nl7
1•
fro ■
the scrutiny o! the horoacop,
and cried:
•Mein
Fuehrer. do not
drink
that
coffee_
it
11
poisoned•. And the
star ga11r ••iatd the oap, •~iob
was promptly analyzed and found to contain a heavy
dose of
a
lethal poiaon.
So Hitler waa aaved by tbe stara,( Qnd ••
ua,a
-
to like those pretty points of li&ht that
1l1aa
in
the sky at night!
Leas occult
and ratberfore
'
credible
1•
another
news
dispatch telling
ot
the arreat of
atill
another
highly placed
Ger■an
nobl•,tor
ooaplioity in the
boab
attempt
against
Bitler'•
lite.
Count
Godtried
Von Bismarck, a grandson of
that Bisaarok whQ ••• the
iron Chancfil.or of
Ger■any.
The count••• th• ailitarJ
Governor of the District of Potadaa, and no•
i•
obar1ed
•ith having had a part in the conspiracy o! the
Generals - Bismarck's grandson!
IIJTL~B -
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It was brought to hia and h
•
e was about to
drink it - but the astrologer raiaed hie head
1uddenl7
f■
from the scrutiny of the horoscope and cried:
•Mein Fuehrer, do not drink that coffee_ it ii
poisoned•. And the atar
gazer 1eized
the cup, •~ich
was promptly analyzed and found to contain
a heav1
dose cf a lethal poison.
So Hitler was saved by the atar1,( Qnd
we uae4
to like those pretty points
t
light that
&lea■
in
the sky at night!
Leas oocult and rathwfore
·
credible i1 another
news dispatch telling of the arrest of still another
highly placed
Ger ■an
nobl•
1
tor
0o ■plioit7
in the
bo ■b
attempt against Bitler•• life. Count Godfried
Von Bismarck, a grandson of that
Bia ■arck
whQ ••• th•
iron Chancalor of GeraanJ. The count was the
■ ilitar7
Governor of the District of
Pot1da■,
and now ii
ohar1ed
•1th having had a part in the conspiracy of the
Generals - Bismarck's grandson!
&BQEITIIA
The United St
t
a•• oppoaition to the
IOYeraaeat
of Argentina was
d
aa •
atill •ore official
today by
,,..
a
scathing lhite
Bo
uae
pronounoeaent, I
11•••
-il■r-tsa,
..
•• 8'•~• aerte111.11,.
He in
e»ia\lia1 •••••
ha ■
••ea
01 11 1 ■1
ta., ••• , •• •
at
Bueaee Ai••••
laai F•••i•\
·
•••ti•
.,,
......
·~·-
~lliee and
plariag • li,ler Birohib
0 . . . . . .
Ia
\hie, Secretary
Bell
ha•~•••
·
•••••••••
~r•er
Uaie• See••~•Y
el
S~•••
I•••••
• • • our•
•• a ••••paper
uolu■i
i i i
ti IR?
••1•i
•b,
• ,tat,,.
•t~itaae
~ocard
=t,ae
AFgea\in•
1••1:a■eal
••
i
•••\~a,••
1hoald
■ate
frliu41
with
Lhe
I•••••
&6••••
&oeae
relt •
i:ee?
TIie\ ••• ••••
1■plJ
o;J,ear
,.a.,
•II••.
s~
"-the President~s\a~en 'The situation prese ta the
extraordinary paradox of lazi-Jasciat influence in
a
country of this hemisphere at the very
tia•
tbat
those forces of oppression are drawing ever closer to
ARGEIIlN.! ..
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the final hour of defeat and Judgeaeat.
•That
expresses
amply
the Preddent• •
opinion,
Whioll he
seemed to expand with a good deal
aore
of
the••••·
This f
'
ollowa
a
riew
■
.
ove
b7
Argentina,
a
aove
favorable to the
Allies.
lhat about war
ori■iaala?
....
~
Th
.
e government
DF
B
,
uenoa Aires
proclai■•
tla
t
last
"
war criainals will be granted no
welcome
in
Ar1entina.
They'll be banned froa the South Aaeri~an Republic,
if
they try to
take refuge there.
Howevet, this declaration was
■ade
to the
British Government, not to the
A■erican.
I\•••
.
.. ••••1»a•y
el
.
st.at.e
8ePiell
lull
aeela1ala
th••
be had~
.
.,
aet. 11ec,eived aa,
eltieial, ••••
of
t.be
t11an,ia,.
itn •
H
aaaiaa\ ••
·
•
a»i ■ 1aal&e
th
.
we
h
·
a~e an explanation
:tro ■
an
Along with
·
.
•
18
Bueno
.
s
Aires' an
explanation
ot
Argentine
official at
decl
•
sion had
been coaaunicated
why the war criminal
~
d
t
~
.
o
Washington.
Be said:
•J.
to London an
no
"
J...
c,N~'2
British
government
is the only United lationa
}
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_
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_
1111•1•■•e~
will
listen to Argentina•. And he
added that the war criminal ban had been communicated
previously to Washington, but Washington, in his words
.
- •preferr
e
d to ignore the statement•.
r ne
word
om
tow
ge
ent is
•nd Apgentina.
However, officials of the•• London
Foreign Office explain that the British and the
American~ aims in the matter are the
aa ■e,
though
the ~ethods are different •
.
by a
The purchase of a
major l e a g u e ~
minor league baseball player
is
ordinarily not such hot
news,
not
even
when the ball player is an outfielder
who has just been accorded top honors in the southern
league. The St. Louis Browns have bought this
minor
league phenom, and be may be able to play in the
remaining games to decide the pennant
•i••*•z
winner
in the American League - he might even get into the
world series.
To all of which, the echo would
see ■
to
be -
so what,
The answer is: Pete Gray, the one
armed
baseball player.
The
fans who follow the
news
of sports
assiduously,~ have
heard· about Fete Gray, but
1,
.
a lot of us will think
it's· a slip
of speech to talk
about
one-armed haseball player. But the
fact ii
-
a
that Pete Gray, with one ara off alaost
at the
shoulder, bas been the sensation
of the southern
league all season.
With only one hand to catch the ball, he has
•
•
been the star outfielder
of
the Ueaphia
teaa.
At
the
plate,
with only one arm to swing the bat, he
hit three hundred and thirty-three, with a hundred
and sixty seven hits for two hundred and twenty-one
bases.
He drove in sixty runs and stole aixty-eight
bases
- although he had two legs to do that.
low,
this one armed wonder goes to the Majors, the Saint
Louis Browns, and aay play a· part in the
American
League drama of pennant and world aeries.
The story should be one to hearten returning
soldiers and sailors who
■ ay
have
lost
a liab
in
battle. Pete Gray lost his ara when he
waa a
aaall
child - it
was~•
blown of! in a aining accident.
And he certainly
ha1
surmounted the handicap -
•inniU
A
high success
•
The polygamy trial at Salt L k
a e City reveals
that not all the p lygamiets are natives of Utah_
some are from New York and Brooklyn. The fundE
.
aentaliats
believing in plural marriage have been protagonizing
their doctrine in the metropolis on the Atlantic
Coast, and one missionary,
who is
alleged to have
five
·
wives, is quoted as telling a highly interested group
·
of Brooklynites:
•Come to Utah•, he proclaiaed, •A ~an
must have at least two wives to
make
a kingdoa for
himself•.
I
i ■ I
don't
know what
kind of
kingdom
you
•••i
would call that.
Maybe
it
aeans
that us
ordinary married men have only half
a
kingdom, which
most of us find quite enough.•
le hear that the Utah
fundaaentaliats have been
receiving a flood of letters
fro■ le• Tort, especially
'
Brooklynites,
who are intereated
in the
doctrine of
One a.bl.tious citizen of
Brooklyn
plural marriage.
1/2-
wrote:
"I just
want
to
know how
to get
■ore
wives•.
D
~ ~ e J . . o ~
7
~~
~ d - e ,
~ ~~
There has been much talk•• that the German
General Staff, faced with defeat,
1
·s 1
a ready ai laying
_
plans for another try - another
war.
Ad
n today this
contention was stated in the London House of
Coa■ ona
by
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
giving an explanation of •unconditional
surrender", he said:
•that
we
aean
by unconditional
surrender is that we are not prepared
t~■ake
a
negotiated peace with Germany•,
And he added:
•we
have inforaationihat the German General Staff,
recognizing the inevitability of defeat, already ia
thinking ■■
in
ter■ s
of the next war•.
After which Eden went on to another thing that
is
being talked about - the possibility that the
lazia
aay conduct an underground resistance in
Geraany,
after
that
country
is occupied. Anthony Eden
stated
today that the Hazi G
8
stapo Chief,
Bia■ler,
i•
already~
making preparations for an underground fight, •i th
h
t
Call ed_ •fanatical young
w at the Foreign Secre ary
Nazis, who are now being trained•.
.fQLAHD
We hear from London that the Poli h
a
govern ■ ent
in exile
has
dismissed the Commander-in-Chief
ot
the
Polish armed forces - General Soankowski.
Be
un
d
er attack for some time because they said he waa
hostile to Soviet Russia.
Specifically, General
Sosnkowski declered that the Polish patriots reYolt
against the Nazis in Warsaw, had been abandoned by
the Allies, especially by the Soviets.
lo••• he
11
reported to be out, undoubtedly
aa
a
Polish
oonoeaai n
to Moscow.
Who succeeds
hi ■?
•hy, General Bor, the
of the Polish Insurrection in laraaw.
11 had
t •
disclosure the other night that thia legended
Partisan
·
leader was in reality Lieutenant General
Io■orowaki
ot
the Polish
Ar■y, and no• the word
i i
that he
succeeds to the command of the military forces
directed by the Polish Governaent in
Exile.
•