GOOD EVENING EVE YBODY:
I'm broadcasting from Madison Square Garden,
tonight.
Before an intimate little crowd of about
twenty
thousand people.
A huge rally for the Sixth War
Loan.
Word is already coming in from some
s
0
ctions about the way this drive is going. From the
est we hear that some communities are already
oversubscribed. That's the news from Montana, Nevada,
lebraska,
issouri, Alabama and Florida. One county in
Montana had bought one hundred
per
cent of its quota
p1us an a
ditional thirty-eight per cent,
by
noon today.
e
learn
from several sources that there is
th urg nt need for us to buy bond, right now; all
we
can a ford, an
more.
The cos
of livin has jumped
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ne
a
rly
th
irty
p
er cen
t
. So, there•j
d
a
n
p
er of infl
a
tion.
One
ay
to hol
d
th
t
off is to
b~y
bonds.
And then, from overseas General Eisenhower has
just told us how urgent is the need for more supplies,
more
g
uns, more ,anks, more planes - and more ammunition
to fire at the Bun. And, the best
way for us to help
on this
is,
to
buy
bond
a
!
And
how is
the War going tonight? Well,
here's
the news: -
JAPAN
------
The
oKyo
rb io ha
won
another
,
Yictory.
It
has j u t broadcast a clai that their
people
have
sunk two Am
ican cruisers
and
set fire to oneff our
battleship
and
one ai er ft ca·rrier ea t of the
,
Philippines.
Japan
se
planes did all this, they
declare, in ddition to sinkin three transports and
damaging four more, in the
Gulf
of Leyte.
They also tell
r
f
an attack on tanilla
by
carrier-based American
planes.Tokyo
saying that more
than
thre-
hundred
of
our aircraft made the attaik,
raiding not only
1
fanilla
bu~also other
..,_
targets all
over the island of Luzon.They likewise report that our
boobers hit Davao, chief city o
jindanao,
south
of Leyte. And, they claim that one hundred and eighty of
our
planes attacked the island of Tarakan near
Borneo, while
still
another
formation
of our
heavy
bombe
s
xi
raided Paramushiro and othe1islands in
the Kur
ile
, far to the North.
Y
h
t
0 0
4
0
,n people
ha
e to
say?
a
little
r
hi 1
e a o
th
e
·
v
y
an
no
u nc
e
d th t
t
e n
Arner
i
ca
n na v
a
1
vessels h ve b en loat, but none of
the•
large ones.
U
ne, a
destroyer,
four destroye
r
escorts;
and
the
othe s, still smaller.
No cruise
r
s, no battleships, no
aircraft
carriers
either
sunk or
even damaged,
as the Japs
&a
clai •
The
avy
gives no
~~tails, merely says the
leas was
due to
eue
y
action aai
perils
of the sea.
An
here comes the important news of the
day
from the P a c i f ~ ~ carrier planes did attack
the
anila area over
the weekend.
Admiral Nimitz
tells us what radio Tokyo failed
to
say,
that his carrier planes shot down one
. C . v 9 o ~
hundred-and-eigbteenl\aircraft, set two large cargo
ships afire and one
:f"lilf~•
J ,
.
•
Niqiitz
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also
that
our
Liberators
~
- f o r
raidd
the
Kuriles1
also the BoninsA
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the
sixth time in eight days.
Fro ,hina e hear that Chian
Kai-She
has
fired six
e
·
b r
of his Cabinet, top-ra kin
members.
ne
ev
e
n re11ov
d
hiR
brother
-iu-law,
H.B.
Kung,
the
Finance Minister.
Also,
General
Ho
Ying-Chin.
This
is
doubly
interesting,
becau
u
e
the
eaa
rlliss
imo ha
1
it'
ting
caused
nuch
if~i•g
of eyebrows in
past
A.__
A.
years Lecau~e he
kept
Gene
r
al Bo on the job. Ho was
one of the
Len
involved
when
Chang Hsueh Liang, the
young
.
:Aarshal, son
of
C
hang Tso· Lin, kid napped Chiang
four years ago.
Remember
?
Gene al Ho has long been
a target for bitter criticism.
Many
considered
bis
direct
ion of the Chine e
armies
singularly incompetent •
.
low, the
an Chiang has selected to succeed
him
is
con
sid
ered
the
moat
able
of
all
the chinese
-
commanders. Ho
~e
v
er
, Bo
ls
not th~own
out completely.
Be r
em
ains as
Chief
of Staff,
where he
can still be
in the
way.
AD
CHINA
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---
One
p
oiat
o
f
int
e
r
t
ab
out
thi
news
from
Chun
gki
n
g
is th
speculation
it
has arous
•
I
mean,
t
e
f
tl
ct t
h
a
t Chian
g
has
fired
his
wife's
brother-in-law
from
h
is
job
a
finance minister.
Wha~verybody
w
a
nts to
know
is:-
4.oe
s
th
M.
mean
a
rift between the Generalissimo and
Madame
Chiang?
The Madame has been
away
from
her husband
since
early last summer.
First in Brazil, and now in
the
United StatesJfor medical
tzaamtaa
treatment.
And while
et
ea
away Husband
G e n e r a l i s s i m o ~ ~
and fired her brothe~in-law.
from the
¥estern
Front'
General Patton h
~A
ta~en ~etz!
In fifteen hundred year
s
no
arm
ed force has
ever
been
str
o
n
g
enough
to capture by
di
rect assault
that mi
g
hty fortress,
the
strongest in
Europe.
The
las
man to do it w
as
none other than Attila the Hun.
George Patton's fighting men did it i
thirteen da s!
At Metz the end came in a hurry. For the last
two days the Germans have put up a desperate resistance,
first
on the outskirts of the city and then in the
streets.
But late last night the German General
commandin
g
the
arrison realized it was all up. A couple
of Nazi offices, c
ap
tured
.
by our troops, reported that
they h
seen him jump into the river, in the darkness,
last ni
gh
t, and
swim
across; to safety.
And that put an end to all organized
resist nee
at
Metz
· There are still a few
oo
~eta of
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snipers to be mppped up.
As the
Comm
nder has disap
p
e
a
red ther can be no
form 1 surr nder
at
~
etz. Hitler's men simply decamped.
The city is fairly und
a
m ed; the
famous
cathedral
intact exce
pt
a broken
window
or
two.
The Germans
didn't have
time
to mine the streets, although they
have mined the tunnels under the city.
The feelings of the townspeople
were
mixed.
Some looked glum when our men came in. Others smiled
and waved. These obviously being Lorrainers.
But that's not all.
General De tassigny,
lea
d
ing the first French
army
in a record overnight
of twenty-eight miles, has blasted loose the entire
left flank of the Germans, and driven through the
Belfort G
a
p,
ri
g
ht up
to
the River Rhine. As a matter
of fact, the
Swiss
in the nearby city of Bale report
that
Tassigny
has built
a
pontoon bride ove. the Rhine
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and m
a
y
be at
this
o
ent, wit
his Frenchmen across
the river,
in Germ ny. The
Swiss
say they can see
the
fig
h
tin
quite
clearly
from
Bale.
Radio
Borlin
admits t e out
i
lanking of Belfort, and appar ntly
the
garrison
ther
~
is
now
cut
off,
and doomed.
General
Eisenhow
r,
later announced
that Belfort
ha.I(
f
alien
.r;,a.
tb
ie
I
ill
a
wer,
is
one
ot the
bn:in,..
hull b--:-=~
F
t-1).e
, . _ a s ~ e
p
ii
Pat
l!Di
Any
be
co
my.ra 1
&a
kl
s-"""'
-are-and
1
igMJ
e-ud ofL....a
f e o t t ~ e l d .
Mb'.&&
lty
th.a -f'a,.eueh,
at
h i ~
This
ia
a
great hour for
the
f,..ench. And
a
mighty
sour
time
for tre
Germans.
For the
famous
Watch
on the Rhine is no
being kept by the French.
American corres ondents
and
photographers, with
General De
Tassi
g
ny's
fighting French troops)were
on the
heights overlooking
the river,
with
a
view of the
spot where the
borders
of France,
Germany
and
S
wit
z
er 1
and
nee
t .
Th e
y
\,
ere
o
n G
e
rm
a
n
s o
· 1,
w
at
ch
i
n g
De Ta
·
ss1
g
ny's
troops
throwing a bridge over the
Rhine
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T R
.
r'
ONT -
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seven
.
n
i
lc
s north of
t
e
Swiss
bor
d
er.
From t
h
e
ri ht b
a
n
o
the river er
m n
c
a
nnon
w
er
e
throwing
h
e vy
fi
r
e p
o
~
r
a
t t
h
e
m
, but t
h
e
F
~
e
nch
we
n
on
crossin
t
h
e
Rh
in
e
.
They have c
a
tured the big
town
o
f
Colm
a
r,
ali
well as s
~
veral other places
between
t
he m
ountains and the bi
g
river.
Go
i
n
g
back to
M
etz, afte~ its captur
e
Patton
took his men right on through, and now they are on
Gorman soil, six miles inside the frontier of the
Saar
district.
lie
is now advancing on a twenty-five
mile front toward the
reat factories and coal
deposits of the
a
a
r.
Further north the British Secodd
Army bas
forged ahead thre
e
il
e
·
a
nd is now only fou
r m
iles
away
ro
m
t
h
e
f
ortress of Venlo on the ~aas River.
Venlo protec s
the a
p
p
roac
h
es to the Sie
g
fried L
i
ne
in ront oft e Ruhr Va~l~l~e!Y~•-----------
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,
T
he Yanks o
f
the First Army under Gener
a
l
Hod
g
es have captur
ed
ano
the
r to
w
n e
a
st o
f
Ai
x
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ONT -
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Chap lle and that
puts
then
our miles closer to
the Rhine.
At the same time the Ninth Army under
General
imp on, has captured four to~ns and is
now
fight
in
in
the
streets
of
Eschweiler, a
sizeable factory town northeast of Aix-la-Chapelle.
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ROS
IA
------
The
ovi ts
ave launched their bi
·
winter
offensive on
th
Baltic
front.
oscow
so
ar
says
nothin
g
about
it.
But, radio
8prlin has
announced it.
Stalin's
Baltic armies have
~•Ea ■ •
begun
to move
on
a t
enty-five
mile
front.
Re,-.1f.NQdvancing on
the Courland Peninsula
cm
the.Baltic
shorea.
The
""
Nazis admit that the Red armies have driven wedges
into their Courland lines with large
fazf forces
of tan
'
s and Stormovik bombers.
All this is a
perlude to a new drive into ~IS East Prussia from
Lithuania.
Import
a
nt
news
from Norway. The Nazis
a
re in
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retreat from Lapland.
N
ow th
a
t mi
a
ht be encoura ing
but for the f
a
ct th
a
t they ar
e
scorching the earth as
5 ~
they
o,
an
rl
as eart
h
h
as
never been
eccpaed
before.
A
"
W
ha
t
they are doing will probably leave thousands and
thousands
of square mi
l
es of territory in northern
Norway uninhabitable for years. They are destroying
all the Norwe ian towns, cutting down all the forests,
and burning
a
ll they can't cut down.
Also killing all
the reindeer, the chief source of food and livelihood
in northern Norway. They are takin
g
with them
all
civilians, men, women and children. Those who try to
escape this ev cu tion a~e shot without mercy, and the
Gestapo is se
t
ting savage dogs on the trail of those
who try to run a
w
ay.
All this inf
o
rm
a
tion we h
a
ve on the authorit
of Cro
w
n Prince Ol
a
f of Nor
w
ay, Comm
a
nder-in-Chief of
the
f
orces
of
his
c
ountry.
e
s
a
y
the Ger
ma
ns
are
plannin
to
build
a
line
of
defense
north of Narvik
across a narrow
neck
of land between the sea and the
Swedish
b
o
rder.
One Norwe ian town, we hear, escaped total
destruction because the ~ussians advanced from Finland
so quickly that the Germans were not able to remove
a
ll the civilian population. That
was
the town of
Iirkenes,
way
up in the Arctic Circle. But even there
the enemy destroyed the bu!ldings with such savagry
that only twenty
per
.
cent remain fit for human
habitation - or can be made so.
Since the Ger
ma
n
started on
the run,
out of
France,
e've he
a
rd almost
nothing of
Marshal Petain,
Pierre
Laval
and other members of the one-time Vichy
government.
ell, today we
hear they are still playin
at bein?
a g
o
vernment.
That Petain maintains a sort f
court in a small city in southern Germany, the city
which
used to be the home of the Hohenzollern family
when
they
were
just petty nobleA - the town of
Sigmaringen.
'
Petain holds audiences daily and reviews his
bodyguard as he used to do at Vichy. The soldiers of
that guard wear German SS uniforms, with a tri-color
patch.
When
they fled from Vichy they first made their
way to Belfort, still on French soil.
Then, as the
Americ n
s a
nd Free French advanced they crossed the
border.
~he Nazis
ave
them a
hom
e a
t
Baden
Baden,
but even that was too near the French frontier.
So,
they fled on to Sigmaringen, where we hear that Petain
spends much of his time walking around the cemetery
where he
expects to
be buried.
Laval is reported to be
extremely depressed, his hair turning white because he
knows
he is high on the Allied list of war criminals.
But, Laval is the only one
'
of the group not treated as
a prisoner.
Where
could he go?
Petain and the others
are said to be virtual prisoners.
But not Laval, the
outcast.
ITALL
--
In It
a
ly the Allies have stffer
e
d a set-b ck.
Not important;
but,
over the weekend General Sir
Maitland Wilson re
p
orted that the British Eighth Ara,
bad recaptured Monte FoTtino, the hill that overlooks
the main highway
to Fienza.
Today the Ger~ans, in a
violent counter-attack, drove off the Polish troops
who had captured the hill.
CANDIDAT
ES
--------
People
who run
•i•
for
public office and are
defeate
may not deduct their campaign
expenses
in
their income tax reports. The Supreme
Court
of the
0nited St
a
es so decided
today. But it was
a
five-to-
w
ote
four decision. Justice Frankfurter~•••s•~the opinion
just as Hugo Black and three others dissented.
The
court made this ruling in the case of a
former judge in Pennsylvania. Be ran for re-election
in Nineteen Thirty-nine and deducted thirteen thousand
dollars
frem
his taxes.
Now
-
he
is definitely out of
luck as are all others who ran for office.
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The courts also turned thumbs down on the
Community
property
sy ■ tem,
which prevails in
soae
states.
In Oklahoma,
for
in ■tance,
a
huaband
wife
may
s
plit
their income
on a
fifty-fifty
basi ■,
filing separate
income tax returns and thus putting themselves in a
lower
surtax
bracket than they would be if
reporting
in the
single
return.
CRO~W
E
LL
______
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In the
Reno District
Court,
Doris Duke
Cromw
e
ll
wont
elat
e
t roun. Chan ing to the
langua
0
e of
olf, the tobacco multi-millionnairess ·
is one-up on Jim
m
y, the
Philadelphia
Main
Line
socialite.
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~
w-G
~:;t
eel:,--£01 ,oeple
&Pa Be\
fa ■ ilier
wit~
...(.._or:.J.
el
,eR
-t4
fV',-d,
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~ - J
ell
tlM!
b
&it
tle
ioft
thie
■ a ■ , ■ ann'-
=
R4
rtg,t
but just
to
remind
~evailed
A
~ - - t l . . t ~ ~ ~
you, Doris.-,\won a divorce in Reno. Jimmy
~,
upon a New Jersey Jud
'
e to say her Nev~a
az
decree was null and void.
Thereupon, Doris went
- 1 ~
~ v
.;;.,.. ..
~
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;:t.~
back to NevadaAaaia 1M 1111oerri>~
seven million
d
lars
from
her. To be
X
J
licit,•
su 66 ested
seven million dollar fund which would
she set up a
~,t\
g
i vel'-f
taay
One
Hund
.
ed
and Ten thousand
a
year or more.
0
For
all
of
Mrs.
Doris
Duke
Cromwell's
~-~
millions, she has'n~t bad
!{
u:tr4.i.~
worth of
peace
in the last nine y
ea
rs. Her life
has
been just one
8'Clla
legal action
after
another.
In her
latest
:tuMM
CROYV
,
B
LL-
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~
th
e
witnessed were hotel employees,
ocial
re
g
ister
luminaries,
R
e
no firemen, bu
s
iness
men,
and.....,_,
the Reno Judge
.z~
--1£..
~
judge~i1 declared
out the
order
of the New Jersey
~
M1
at
Mrs.
Crom
we
11' s)!i
t
Sf"-
divorae decree . . . null and void.
In
short, the
heiress of tobacco magnate James Buchanan Duke has
posittvely·got rid of Philadelphia
Main
Line
Jimmy
Crom
we
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