~tvi:b,,r • was th e greate s t day in the Red Army's history", says a :iatr,dispatch~ ~ Stalin issued ive orders of the day, each announcing a victory in Poland. And each was hailed by the customary salute of gunfire~n Moscow. The Soviet Capital tonight was listening to the thunder of guns for fivehours. Guns that fired twenty-eight thousand, nine•hundred and ninety-two times -- as a salute to the events of today. The Uoscow radio states: "Catastrophe has fallen on the German armies in Poland. The entire laatern lrront has col apsed. •Only im m ediate aizz surrender can help the Germans now". Stalin's orders of the day announced the fall of the great fortress of Lodz, which is the second largest Polish citJ. And Irakow was taken today, the fourth largest Polish city. And Stalin further announced the capture ) of Schlossberg, in East Prussia - not to m ention a jQSSIA - 2 a whole string of o her places. The Red army has thrust to the border of Germany itself, and the Nazis report fighting inside the great German industrial povince of Silesia. All of which ~ay aean that the end of the lazi Monster is approaching•- although it aay be that J - the Germans are••• conducting a vast retreat for a itter stand at the border of their own country. l [OLLO W R U . S SIA The latest announces the capture of another big Polish city Tarnow. And Moscow tells of the Red Army seizure of a total of t wenty one hundred towns and villages. In addition to which the Russians drove thirty one miles into East Prussia, and all along the i~ m ense front, advanced g ■ for gains up to thirty miles -- a vivid sign of the speed f the Soviet advance. The drive to the German province of Silesia carried the Russfans ahead for twenty- three miles. They are within sixty miles of the capitol of the province, Breslau, and are two hund ed and twenty eight miles from Berlin. -- - Jit?IilULU~Ui T On the W estern Front the shrank still further today -- the Nazi pushed back all along the line of what remained of their bulge. They lost twenty towns. And to the north in Holland, advances were scored too -- as British forces thrust••••••• ~ ahead in~offensive designed to bite off a neck of land that the Germans hold in Bolland. Britiah-y;mmies advanced in what is described as the worst blizzard the Western Front has known. Hanging onto ice covered tanks with their fingers almost frozen the-rc;mmies rolled ahead by uigbt in what is called •artifical moonlight•. United Press correspondent Richard - MacMillan describes this by saying that powerful searchlight batt e ries threw their beams upfnto the low hanging clouds of the blizzard. And the•••••• search lights refl e cted fro r the lay•rs of clouds produc e d a kind of moonlight. ~ »acMillan adds a culminating touch JIS IllLl..RQlil'.--.::.-2_ of the fantastic: "the artifical mo o nlight" says he,"produced the phenonenon of a midnight rainbow toward which the aak tanks drove eastward firing all their guns•. Like a terrifying i2a■ dream of war -- a ■ idnight rainbow in the artifical moonight. In the south in Alsac~ e American Seventh Army has suffered a serious setback -- the Haz~expanding their bridgehead across the Rhine and establishing a solid forty mile front for a new salient in At last reports the Germana in their offensive in I■ Alsace were within six miles of Strasbourg. illii•liiiiil 'l n : rm th t out rn ~ c to r r minds us t hnt e v e r y o nc e in a t , hil s omet in n p en to vindic ate n a m - in m e · m 11 a e ree a t least. - ' ~ 1 1 t el l you th t ven ,ero ha ~ ome ood p o · nts, a n d sc i e nti st may discover o r is e orthy characteri , tics io t he man- a tin shar ~ omething like this occurs toda y , in the oa abused t h i n ~ ~ ~ : - the e of one of the most Maginot Line. Ever since the fall of France, thoionce a dm ired fortification have · been a mark for opprobrium, mockery and jeers. Yet to~y•s news g ives a g ood w ord even for this M ag inot Line. - On the w a rfront in Alsace, ~ here the hmerican Seventh Army i battlin against that pe r s istent German of f ensive, the sol o i e rs hav e ut the old Maginot Line fortifications to ef : _ ctive u s e. Thy have e· tablished d. themselves in g r . t concr e te bun k . rs sun un de rgroun~ - Which rovi e ex c e l l - nt sh lter ~ , ea y t o h ol • And toaay's i s t c :, t· : t · thRt p o w r f 1 ' rm &. n p anze r att ~ cks i n t es ctor of th to~ n o f itc h e ( B ee s ) ha ve &hat t e r ea L e ill " 1 v g a in st bunk er s of the inot 1JiNQ 1 Ll "" f L O ' l 'l' " 1 IAG -- - ~ --- - -- - .. !.,... ... Line , ma n A me 1 · ic a n roo s . ~ 1n on on , \; u rc .i ll o t no h r vot e of c O n i' i a e n e t o d : 1 , o v r . e l m i n - t h un dred nd fo rt t o V D. owe v r , a in o t he last pr evious vot e o ·c on idenc e , aa a l ar e num er of labor members st ye a ou f it - a st ined rom votin g . 1 00 y ' ev nt reflected the improvement of Lhu1c~ill's o s ition in Parliament - this lar g ely becau u e of the g r - at adores he made yPsterday. His Parliamentary o pp onents were sim~ly flattened b~ the power an bit of the Churc h illi n oratory. Also - -,- t e improvement o f a fta irs in ~reece bas stren g hened I' the Prime iniater. T hat - and the univers 1 British condemnation of the Greek Left ; ing policy of holding hostages. The slau hter of hostages does not sit ~ell ith he Britich consci e nce. L a a y t t e c r e t ~ r y of tate t tli i r : i l cc o y r id nt 005cvelt for h is next con ' e r e nce ,i th \, u rc ' i l l &. n d lin . 1 h ere n aa en ome r rt ~ht he wou l a not. It ,ill be th e ir t time that a n nmerican becretar oi ~t te has attended one o those big internationa l m etin s - though Cordell null made a brief app · aranc e at on the sched . ule is that n oo evelt, ' hurchill and c.telin ill t ke along the hmeric n, British and oviet Forei ~ n inisters. 0 ~~ f'll.'J, SOB§!llUTE HILIPPINES ----- In the Philippines adva n ce a new •ri••••• today toward Manila, a push of six miles. And that carried MacArthur's main invasion force to within seventy six miles of the Philippine capital. It is apparent though, that the push could be much faster, if MacArthur so desired -- Japanese resistance being still absent. However, the American commander has to aake sure his flank positions are secu r e -- the line along the eastern side of the invasion. There the Japs have been attacking -- I• in the biggest flare-up of enemy activity thus far. They struck at the to•n~f Rosario, occupied by the Americans on Wednesday, The Japs had tanks, and . there w a s a spurt of violent fighting - in which the enemy assaults were beaten off with heavy losses • • We have heard previously that the Japs ai g ht abandon Man·la Mithout a fight and today dispatches give a surmise that the enemy plan might be to »•tsi•i battle it ou.t in northern Luz - on, or iPISTITUT£_PQILIPPINES - 2 perhaps in the southern part of the island -- more 18 a delaying action to win time than anything else. The latest B-29 raid hit a target that has not been moles\ed thus far and again it was an aircraft fa tory. The superfortresaes have been coacentarting on Japanese air power.-• production. A big plant at Akaabi waa blaat&d and not a B-29 was lost although the bombing was done at a lower altitude than usual. There was little fi&hte~ opposition and the anti-aircraft fire ia deacribed aa 1 light to aoderate•. lAP SUB T onight's account of a Japane s e sub comes as a surprise - we hadn't heard or any enemy undersea craft operating so near our Pacific Coast since Nineteen Forty-two. But there's no surpriae in the fact that the Japs coaaitted atrocities after sinking an American ship. The freighter John A Johnson was , torpedoed between California and Honolulu - tonight'• bulletin doesn't say just when. So ■ e survivors food refuge in a life boat, others on a raft, while still others hung onto floating sacks of flour. The sub caae to the surface and opened fire on thea with aacbine guns - the Japs on deck shouting and dancing with savage glee. The subaarine likewise ra■ med the life raft, i ■ lis deliberately. Ten Aaerican sailors •ere killed in cold blood. The rest - aoae sixty - •ere s otted by an Aaerican plane and re s cued. r. s .1. -- · e F • • 1. iv es u s a ne w warning about Nazi s~ies - sa y in that three en e my secret agents are believed to b e un er or ers to enter the Ubited btates. r . B .l. D irector J. Ea a r oover tells us that these thrte were tr a ined at a Nazi F.spionage School last summ e r, wnere they ere associated ith the two s p ies, German t ric G im p el and American William Colepau g h - who •ere captured in New York after havin g been landed on the coast of Maine by a German submarine. , e may surmise that in the investigation of the two secret agents who got into the countr y , J. E d g ar rloover acquired information about the other three. T h e public is warned to be on the lookout for these three, an d d escriptions of them are given - descri p tions t h at have tneir turns of oddity. One N azi secr e t a ent is described as a former rl itler storm troo p er w ho s p eaks onl a l ittle in lish, but is fluent in i rench a nd P ortu · uese. H e h as a ta ooed picture o f c la p i n g hand on h i s ri g h t f ore a rm - f.B.I. - 2 and is a 1z i to car ·, a r ular card shark, and may be µosin _ as a m er. hD L her of the threes ies is described as havin two scar~ on is ri~ht forehead, a na he has a nabit of er ckin ~ is false teeth. ~o if somebody wit a handclasp tatooed on his forearm snould ask you in frenc or ortu es~ to oin a poker game, while nis pal has scars on is forehea~ cracks is false teeth - don't launh, notify the F.B.I. ~'1i!fl-4 To c ap the cl1max~ystery about spies, r here's•• a weird one telling of a Nazi secret agent base on an island in Galveston Bay -- right outside • . 'd one of the most important harbors of our gulf coast, Galveston, Texas. And the story intimates further that two army men were held prisoner, there in nineteen Forty-two. - All of this comes from a note in a bottle, said to have been found by a bo7. The note bears the aignatures of Lieutenant James llonroe and Sergeant lolaa Coleman. It states: •Are being held prisoner on an island in Galveston Bay by German agents, send help ~ Do not know exact location". Unless the note in the bottle is a hoax perpetrated by some crackpot, it would seem to ~epresent about as fantastic a story as this wa1 has brought forth:- enemy spy nest in ~ Galveston Bay. A pr 1 e to tomorrow's inauauration as held in ,as in ton tod y. The one thousana club - - had its first we ting, and or aniz d as a oermanent a fair. urin~ the el ction camoai~n, there was plenty of debate about the One · 'fhous_nd l;lub - made up of some two hundred and fifty ~oosevelt supporters, each of w,om had onated a thous ~ nd dollars to the Fourth Term Campaign. !he prospectus that solicited· tnousund dollar members had some large soundin things to say about the privileges they would enjoy. And the Republicans charged that t~ whole thing amounted to a sale of political influence. ~ell, today one ·or the privileges of the One Thousan Outfit came•to light - the Club, two nundred and fi ~ty strong, will attend the inauguration. ' he ceremony, a e know, will be small and semi-orivate- The President takin g the oath on the .. hite Hou e back poncn, ilea n umb e r •of uest •ill atch - standing on the lawn. I sup o c ,e it ould e un · 1 nified to l!!!l2Y!!!!QI __ - 2 1peak of the Whi t e Hou s e b a ck yard. Nearly all of these guest s will be Governm e nt officials, wi t ~ th~t one shining exception, the ■ embers of the One Thou ■ and Club. They'll be all••~ d to stand there in the open - hoping and praying that it doesn't rain or snow. Then a further privilege will be granted the ■• Together with other guests on the lawn, they will go inside for soae lbite Pouse luncheon - chicken salad. And then tomorrow night they in turn will entertain the President and Vice President at a banquet - a big affair of one thousand guests, the One Thousand Buck Club having the President to dinner. ~ re i ~ . th . lu L ..: t - a ro hu b en stirred up because c: om oth r mocr a ts v o contri uted a tbous & n o a ol Al' or mor to q urth 1erm Cam pa i n are tryin _ to horn in on thP ban 1 uPt. T hee are political contributors iho donated their cash,not to the Tuous nd Cl ub, but throu h other channels. Some official s think that they, too, should -tu~lify as me II be rs of t he c 1 u b, a nd he 1 p Cll enter t in the P i;e s id en t at d i ~ . ~ r l ub members, however, reject the A . . contention - the other cash contributors havin ~ merely ' forked over the~oney in the ordinary commonplace wa~ -, gH . d H n NJ: iJ"i' t t i ~ ~ ~ " " ' • ODD 1 ' Y --- i ano h r lo ·ct to your collection in ton mi -uos. n tsost n toaay __ manpo,· er officials were t i tin ij their br ~ ins aroun a ruling from , shin · ton, 8 r 1lin ~-:. conc f.:! rnin employ ees in restaurant ::.. 11hich are sen ti 1 nd which are not? - - ' he ruling in \ , uestion cl a ssifies dishwashers as es s en t i a 1 e m p 1 o y e e Q • Ji t the s a m t i me• t ha t s am e rulin clas i ies chefs as unessential. LJishwashers es enti 1 - cnefs unes nti~l . ' ~ow fi ur that one out. If you don't have chefs to cook th . food \hat m a kes the d i shes dirty, o f what us e i s a aish~llsher? Sz-,; '-• ;e.:"'-. ~ ~ . fP* , .. ;;z&xv kl~ •• 4i-: I. f :.::a > '-I ttltc 1 'JA • •• 7 I le = ? · ifIES Here is a sardonic touch to add to the 1tory of the two spies, •ho have been captured and will soon go to trial before a military court. In le• York, while they were hanging around ■• expensive places, trying to pick up infor■ation for the lazis - they wanted to rent an apart ■ ent. They went to a real estate office and inquired, and were moat interested in one particular apart ■ent inte~eated particularly in the address, the street and house nu■ ber. The story is given to ae in a letter fro ■ Harold C. Saauela, who run• the real estate office in question. He writes that the apart ■ent house in question was in Greenwich village, and the address was - &umber Ten Downing Street. Yes, there ia a Downing Street in Rew York, •••ixit and it has a nu ■ ber ten - thereby duplicating that historic address in London, the residence of the British Prime Minister, Winston ' Churchill's h e me right now. W hen the s p ies ••Ji heard, "Number Ten ifIIS - 2 Downing Street", they looked at each other, and grinned. Were they interested in living at that address? They certainly were. They had a sardonic sense of humor - amused at the idea of having their apy headquarters a le• York counterpart of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's official address in London. However, it did not work out that way - because the F.B.I. stepped in and arrested the two ■ pies. If this had happened somewhat later, we might have had the ironic headline - arrest of lazi . spies living at number ten Downing Street!