The J h u b ( C' n d a y 0 y • The " e iv en ' ,, om i :ious ti i " h in conn c ti o n ith overn en t de cre es fo r ne n o re r s i e ~ ure of war . ~ J•p atr--Ht s rl-f is-- ~ -- The To yo a r Ainister told the Japane e Parli t he foll • . ing: "The p re s nt war situ& io " i he , " oints cle &.rJ. 7 to the f a ct that the ' Japan se h om e ~ : il 1 bec o me a the at re for d eci ive On top of th a t, the Japs we re in a rmed offici ally ~ for the first ti e 1 o f the f 11 of I o Jima - tbey gal 121.&& a dr ma ic com mu ni ue tel l ing of the Ame r ican c a pture of that all-import' n i 1 d . nd yet t h e J ps d i d n o t et al l the bad news - Tokyo keep i i en t b o t t h·e great n av a 1 a ir attac ks against the ika o ' s f t i n the n Se • Today's con t·nued t . on hi . of J ~r his so JAPAll - " --- a 1 m r t. e !' 1r a . ,. t , on s ing c:. .~ ' C. 0 and t · i e o · . i . i 0 . b l e th th aircraft ca r· . . bl . f ted v re the ~ t one in service in t e J • T l e o a indic te that at least se en J were be v · ly Te oun of Japanese pl nes destro ed no rise t four hun red ' n ev en -fiv , ~n add the number of e n e ipy p 1 & n e dam g e d , an h figure comes to aix hundred. I iously. / rate}.1', I, t i t we / eavily dam ge ral othe ea e In t ~ ilip ines Ame ic n troops ~a e co 1 e e t e occupati on of Iloilo , 'l pi ol o n Islan. ost of the city was urnt on b e J a ut G ener 1 iacAr hur informs us t a t the im ortant harhor with is valu ble d oc ks is un amage. MacArt ur ads that the invasion of Panay was a cinch, because Philippine guerrillas had chased t e Japs out of most of the islan) an enemy troops held only t e area around Iloilo. On Luzon, the Jap strongpoint of aguio has now been outflanked on the north an nort west, an AmericE troops may be expected soon to capture what was formerly the Philippine sum er capitol, ..., ~o er, fierce fightin is ex p ected from the Japs in that area. Th war news from the est rn F r o n t ~ "- spotl i ~ ht on a Ge ma n in d ustrial concern, one of the most faaous - the I.G.Farben Chemical orks. Time a nd again, durin g the p ast ye rs of peace and war, I.G.Farben has appeared in connection with world industrial affairR, a possessor of vi ta 1 p a t t e ~ a huge producer in the real ■ of chemistry - in which science the Germana have ' always excelled. The I.G. Farben plant is in the c.,ity of Ludwigabafen, which accounts for the fact that Ludwigahafen is the greatest Ge r man industrial city west of the Rhine. (£nemistry, of co ax se, · s a _.., ..v - e ~ ience iD, thi ■ war of explO'B 1ves, a-nd--t-here-is - n-o need e-f. dweJ J iJli .on the importance f I .- 8. Farben - fHte Lud1rtg8 fen t;o Ri+Jer'a machi~ry of h a t ~ ~ Well, American Third Army troops today captured Ludwi~shafen. Units of Patton's armor fought their way into the city, and tonight he g r er I.G.F a r e n Ch . em1cal OSTERI f .B Q l!I.. - 2 plant is i ~ r ic ~ n b an 8j Thi s is the fin a l touch in the Ame r i ca n victory in the S a ar n d the Palatina e. O ne commun 'q ui tells us that all o rg a ni z ed G er a n resistance we s t o f the Rhine has collaps ed . Anothe s t a tes t h at the only enemy forces that rem in o be m opped up are remnant s of thr o e divisions, wh ich are believed to number o nly a few thousand men. Thes a re tr a pped alon g the Rhine, a stretc of the river ithout bri es - the se c ti n of riverbank bet~een Ludwigahafen and another important industrial cit7 larlaruhe. In the b i - he ad beyond the Rhine, First Army troops a n d t n k s b a ttered ahea d to da y !or an a d v a nce of three a n a al f mile • They surged forward on a seven •ile front a lons a pl a in that border s the river. -U.17 ••• Ji ■ d a a4,p g 811 oalled t.he Siag, a etrettm t--hat itt· ieecrtb-ed"'ae ot1ly a we a k lu 1 rrte"- The expanding brid ehead becomes a n e v ,.. in r , thr th in us rial Ruhr, j us t o th n o r t: . The indi ions r e that the Ruhr will soon be under one of the gre te t stoftming att cks in history - not only r rom the bridgehea • , but also from areas farther 1 north. There, we re told, great masses of British, Canadian and American Ninth Army troops ar e prepared and poised for a mighty surge across the river - a nd straight into the Ru~r. All of , ich is having a tr mendous prelude, an overture from the ir. Today's ne · e indic a tes that Allie air power on the estern Front has struck its 6-1:l• t r~ .t!" ~«1 i,§-N - a g:::;;: j, 6-= E ..., greate t blow. All a--y long, m s ~ i ve airmades sm a shed A- the industri 1 uhr. It is s a i that the sorlies flown ay excee her ord nu beret blished on D Day-of-the- invaeion-of-Fr nee. w-vt£.. to,,,,_..., ~ ~ ~ ~ . - B r iti h mos uito om er di dr m tics - unt gsTERN FRO T ------- - ~ today fly . n Co enh • .E.k ing - en an p n-p int att ck . e er in h nish c e. pital. They hi n s m . he n the six - st or · ui j ing, i hereu on • Deni h rio ui kly ru hed the pl Ce and re"cued many hostage• th t had been confined there by the Nazi Gestapo. And tonight aosquitos are over Berlin, subjectin1 the German c pit l to its thirtieth ir rid in as many da1a. The Soviet night bulletin makes no mention of tbe Eastern Front f cing Berlin, bu the Germans continue to tell of the imminence of a great Russian drive. Moscow contents itself itb announcing the capture of several town• and gains of five ailes on the road to Danzig. Ala tpp!ICI The news from Russia takes us to a theme concerning which •e have s o m e inform a tion rrom head q uarters. il Lodwick, a• yeter81l ot ayi a tio 1 1 , has Just returned from a trip oyerseas •• special co n sultant to the War Department. Al 1s an old friend ot ours, and I have aske b1a to tell us something be encountered tbat was particularl1 signiticant. ----0---- Alu.:, Well, Lowell, I spent quite a bit or time with tbe Eighth and lintb Air Forces 1n Britain and France, and with tba Tweltth and Fifteenth Air Forces in Italy, and I can say tbia -- it Germany bad had aa aucb air strength as we baY e , the outcoae ot tbe war would be entirely ditterent. ---0--- And anything el s e Al' •m,re all did you goT ---0--- AL!.: The trip I made took ■e all along the Western Fronts Prance, Belgium, Luxembourg, and into Gers&llY• And A, saw the dou1h- boJs 1n action 1n Italf• I can tell you how much tbef •alue General Arnold's American Air Forces. G . neral Spa•tz has done 8 Ale LQDIIg - 2 treaendous Job s eommander or the Strategic branch __ and 10 bas General Doolittle with the Eighth Air Force, and General Eaker with the Fifteenth Air Force. Their sup ort ot the advance on the estern Front has been headlined, but not so much attention has been giYen tot Allerican air aid that the Russians have been gett1n1• ---0--- Well, it's a long flight from our bases 1n Britain, Prance, and Italy to the Western Front. ---0--- &1- tea, it is, but ~ust the same, the Russian Ila advance an the road to Berlin bas been aided greatl.J by the Aaerican 1trategic air forces. These have been h1ttin1 at German war cutera laediatel11n rroat or the Soviet advance -- uk1ng deva■tating a\tacks an communication centers, oil refineries, ar .... nt plants, railro~ and marshalling yards, bridges and supply lines. Bad it not been tor the help 1iven by the Allerican Air Forces, the Rusaian Drive would undoubtedly have been slower. ---0--- lul.,,,z- By the way, Al, you might refresh us about the d1tterence between strategic bombing and tactical bombing. p - Jli LOQDCI - 3 "'- Well, tactical bombing is 1mmed1atet aup ort ot tba &ray front lines. Strategic bombing consists ot long-raJlle attack■ on industrial targets and centers ot coammications. In otber words, tactical bombing is like kicking o•er tbe milk pail each daJ, whereas strate11c boabinl 1■ like killinl the cow. ~--0--- At luncheon with the Secretary of the Treasury at noon tod a y, a g roup of us were askin g questions about Bretton Woods, the plan for a • orld bank, and international finances in ~eneral. I happened to ask Ur. llor~enthau a question which brought out a story that has never been told ' and that undoubtedly should have been in the news long ago. In answering my que s tion as t o whether we could depend on lua1ia when it coaes to international problem• of economics, the Secretary of the Treasury responded that in hi• twelve years of contact with the Russians, he had found the■ honorable in eYerytbing, aquare shooters, alway, keepin~ their promises. And as one of hi• illu1tration1, out came thi• story, nwver told before: It was in the autuan of Nineteen Forty-One, after the Russians had become involved in war with Germany, and before they were g etting Lend-Lease from ua. They wanted to buy some thin g s in this country, an d our g overnment 1.QIGEITBAL:.~.Y§.§lA - 2 broke a precedent by money to aake the purchase, with nothin~ to back up the loan. The Russian• 1aid that they would send over a shipment of six million dollars in gold, and get it here within ninety days. I\ They shipped the gold from Murmansk, on a British crui1er. The Nazia 11111k the cruiser. Down · went the gold. ' --,:c., - ........ Our Treasury officials thought th•,1 would do the usual _,.J thing~ aay: "Well, we'll take it up with the British, I' -tl..«-1 see if we can get a settlem~nt; and/\the whole thing •II._ han1 fire for years.• Instead,- they said: •till you give u1 another ninety days? If so, we'll ahip you another six aillion in gold." And they would 1end it this tiae by • ay of A 1 ask a • 5M-• ~ J MorgenthaaL a Treasury A /\ representative to Alaska to 8 ait the arrival of the gold. In a few weeks, into an Alaskan harbor came a Ruasian vessel. Not a man on board could speak En g l i s ~ e y ha d the gold on th8 sh~p. . dover wi t h a l o t of garbage. It was up 1 n the bow, covere I Tle Treasury Department arran ed for three Army planes to fly the g old to ashington, the Treasury official ~oing in one p lane with part of the g old. And he was the only one who kne wh t ~ sin the heavy boxes. The weight 111 . 10 great, the planes bad trouble taking off, and the s pilot said: •we can e asi ly solve this. Let's duap those box•• overboard!• The Trea s ury of f icial rather meekly S o 1£>-.,~ iaplored the• to try i£ a g a i n . ~ got off, and the gold duly arrived in Washington . new wor om~ f~un~i There 1• a lively wrangle about too• 1n Washington, witb governaent otticials charging that the American Met Institute had been trying to «"eate a famine scare. Today War rood Administrator lanin Jones declared that Americans will still continue to bave plenty ot tood -- •even tlx>ugh tbf7 aay have to take a new bitch 1n ~ their belts to help starving peoples abroad.• Tbe meat packers respond by denying tbe7're tryinc to create a tood scare. Tbey cbarge that tbe O.P.A. la, 1n their word• - •price-tixing ua into bankruptcy.• Our food situation over tie• in, ot couraf, ritb tbe food proble■ in Europe. In London today, Prlae Mini■ter Cburcbill told the Bou■e ot Common• tbat large parts ot Burope •1 face tuiDe conditions next •inter, and Great Brittin'• own tood stock■ rill sink to a ■1n1aua. Churchill issued a denial ot wbat he ■aid were state unta that bad been . . de in the United States - tbat Britain ha■ • food reserve amounting to seven hundred million tons. ' It ,s a nounced that John Foster Dulles ill not attend the San Fr ncisco Conference ith any official status. Dulle, who wa~ advisor on foreign ffairs to Governor De ey during the pre idential campaign last fall, was invited to go as personal aide to Senator Vandenberg. Or, suggested the Senator, he might attend as an advisor to the American Delegation. Senator Vandenberg is, of course, one of the prominent Republicans whom President Roosevelt has appointed as American delegates to the conference of th United Nations. Today S n~tor Vandenberg made public a letter from John Foster Vulles, in which the Foreign Affairs dvisor to Governor De ey states: •It is my preference to have no official status at San Francisco.• He is expected to atten the onference in an unofficial cap city - •as Chairman of the Commission for a Just nd Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches of hrist in me ic .• Here's an important truth clearly I{.-« and succinctly stated. It comes in t h e course of a warning against internationa l carlels, a warning is s ued by i• J. Howard Pew, Pre J ident of t;a ~un 011,ei.■~ tells us that a number of S■ plane represented as •trade accords• are really world wide cartels, of a sort to stifle Aaerican industry. aaixa■a■ta And he gives us this lucid stateaent. ,, ., Bu1inea s and industry, sav J. Howard•••• Pew ,. render their greatest service to the nation, when they constantly produce better products a.ad services at lower prices -- through an efficiency that reconciles a low cost policy with the payment of high •ages". Thentwas a para oxical interview in Pollywood today, when Nora Eddington was aske~ w ether she was divorcing Errol Flynn. She replied, •r denied divorce rumors before and I still do.• She was next asked was she married to Flynn. •r•m not saying,• she .,.$ answered. In other words divorce denied! the · question of marriage i~ left uncertain. Jeanwhile her father, upon being informed tbat ' ! his daughter bad become a mother in Mexico City declar •certainly she and Flynn are married.• fAJ,11 ROIQR On lwo Jiaa today they celebrated the surrender of lazi Germany, and bailed the end of the European war. ~ Tbt previous,A !!ar had its false armistice, a premature report t h a ~ the nation rejoiciD.g - a little in advance. /.. . Tb• celebration on Iwo Jiaa today was on a saaller scale, ,ut it aade up with noisy enthus~asa what it lacked in 111,:tfThe announcement flashed - •Germany has surrendered unconditionally. The war in Europe is over.• And iaaediately the roaring rev~lry was on, shouts and cheers, songs and fireworks. The marrnes let loose with everythin1 that would make a noise, and they had a lot of equipment tor producing loud s o und~ rifles, pistols,aachine guna, anti-aircraft guns. The island was a pandeaoniu■ of Jubilation. For an hour two 1iaa w as the happiest place on earth. And then ca ■e·the disillusion - the cold, dreary, 11..R,rl< ~w. sobering truth. Here's h~w Iwo Jima got the false news ot A th, end of the Europe a n w ar. ULSE B.YJ!QR - 2 T'-<~~4-~ kt> nwx has been conqu red, but there still may be a few Japs around, and at one place marines were still in foxholes. In one of these was a walkie-talkie radio operator - ~nd that leatherneck was getting fed u p with the whole thin g , tired an d bored. Be needed so•• entertainment, and thought he'd have it at the exp e nse a pal of bis in a foxhole down the line. So he talked to ~ walkie-talkie, and gave what pretended to be an announcement of final victory in Europe. And that leatherneck 1'it happened did a convincibg job of it - ~ too convincing. that not far away was a radio . truck in which the operator waa receiving and typing messages from San F rancisco.· Someho•, the frequencies got tangled, and the voice of the walkie-talkie joketer in the foxhole got on to the fre q uency of the offici a l news from San F r a n c ~ ~ a d io man in the truck heard these I'- electrifyin g w ords: • Germ ny has surre n dered unconditiofi a~ ½J • In his excitem e nt, he broke speed records in breaking the news to Iwo1 ~ •ttll that headline of headlin••· In a few ainutes the whole island had it, ahipl off the shore as . well, _ and the celebration was on. In his foxhole, the walkie-talkie operator had no idea• of how far his joke bad gone, until he be~an to hear the oproar, 1ounds of a the yell• and shooting of guns, all th• ~ -4 great celebra,tion. ~ - began to have a " dawning suspicion, a terrible suspicion, and he sneaked back to find out • ._.. There he heard the news, his own foxhole headline. Badly worried, he went to hi• coamanding officer and &ere made a statement, which ahould be aarked down·as a classic: •sir,• he said, I 1t '1 think I have done something wrong.• It isn't reported what his commanding officer said, or what hie leatherneck pals are saying. But you can guess how '/2- popular that walkie-talkie jokesmith was.,. when the wo rd l got around_ that the good news was not true, the whole celebrati~o~ ~ -iL.J ~ -t,,_ - /-Y~ :