S ' IA ----- the Sovi e ts anno u nce still another drive -- in ad ition to r e ~ t th e hole a e ries of thrusts that they the falt rin g Germans on the southern front. This new at one is in the Bend of the Dnieper, where a mil ~ ion Germans are t h reatened with an . enor ous disaster. The new offensive bas broken through for a dept of twenty-four miles, and the Red Army troops h e surrounded the City of Iirovograd 1 an i.Aportant base l.t 1 4s not ' stated how large a lazi in the In Poland the Red forces ere driving rapidly on. \ To d ay's led Ar•~ communique places the --- . Russians in a town c a lled Klesov, twenty-six miles ' ' beyond the old Polish border -- that d eep in the 1 territor1~hich both the Poles an d the Russians~ !ill... -1 ~- - 2 l IJ cl ct-. Lon d on tod a y adv a nces a likely sounding explanation of the de s perate s:tuation in which the German armies find themselves. British military men say that the German High Command has been of the belief that it cou_d extricate its forces fro ■ the Russian threats of ■■ E encirclement. But, once again -- the German Generals ran afo~l of Hi ler•s intuition. They •••s ■i planned a sound and stratetic - withdrawal; bu~ Hitler orde~ed that no ground should be giYen without a determined fight. And this has imperiled the huge German Army in southern Russia, and also has brought about a new clash between the .Sc commanding gen erals and Der Fuehrer. -A we are told. / / 0 MB I.NG ---~ ......... - A t o-fold blow bit Hitler's ..t .. ortress Euro p a today -- one a short range assault against the French invasion co t. American mediua bombers -- M a rauders, haamered away at the Nazi defenses along f (' Ol'lfl the shore o tbe £ , nglish vhan . nel, the coast, aC which A the second front invasion seems likely to land. lh i le the short w son, Flying Fortresses - ~ f'. -t---i:l<t.A •9\ ranJe mediu ■ bomber aasault ~ ~ t N C n an . d Liberators flew"-w (A-A R" to do their own long range work. The big four- engined bo ■bers once again hit targets in southwestern Ger any.-JrThe weather was by no aeans perfect for bombing, the day being cloudy over northern Europe. Dense banks of clouds hid the'earth, concealing the targets fro m s · gh t. lut the clouds couldn't conceal tho s e targets from the secret sighting devices that ti.. ~ A l . L i e d ~ ~ ~ s i n g -- a new scientific gadget ,, employing raye that penetrate the merky mist~ aD TO FIR T PAGE F BOMBING ---------------~- , ~------ · -- , -- Twelve he , vy bombers were lost and seven fighters -- while•• forty two German fighters were shot down. BO . BIG - 2 .-.---..- ~~ The state of affairs in much- o m bed Berlin A was disclosed today by our own American Air Commander, General B--f. Arnold. In a news conference at Fort ~ -4 - · ' - ' or th, Texas.1 M •11 • t • L:d that two thirds of the r I\.. I\ lazi capital has been destroyed. ltna, •we are going ~-~· ahead to complete the job• said n Arnold. told of the calculated Allied plan for destroying " Nazi • ar centers:.. Wle are pf . eking the■ out all over Germany and are proceeding to W"ipe them outj said he. ~•-A.Wb4t~ Mean hile, ~••n&Pae•/\inter e st is being displayed i~ that new secret ~eapon of the air -- the jet pr : r iled plane. London gives us picturesque details about the p~olonged testing and flying of this 1 test thing in war aviation·-- testing and flying • that w a s kept concealed by i·i-gid censorship. A dispatch f ■ from London today states: •The jet propelled plane screeches like a whistling tea-kettle•. _Qj_l_Q - 3 That's th e way witnesses describe it. An d 1 the dispatch goe s on:-- •when it was first heard many persons rushed to shelters thinking a hu g e bomb was hurtling towurd them. The approach of the plane was heralded by a high-pitched scream which increased in volume and bec a me terrifying. In a matter of seconds.,•the story · continues, •the plane - became visible, then faded a■ out -- a diminishing speck in the sky•. In Washington today military aviation experts f■ z ■ •• foresaw a ne ,~ phase of ai~ war -- with super planes whizzing at five and six hundred miles an h ur. Super, in this case meaning -- jet propelled. LED IT LY --------- In Italy the Fifth Army has finally captur e d San Vi t tore. ~ The last of the German 1 resistance was finally mopped up today. This late bulletin was preceded by g:•phic storiea tollia1 ~e• 11v1se ■ ee tbe 1trn11 1, tor th-e w ■ nc fa• fear 1f kitting ,aeir ••• •••• - • • ~ euatendlng- fau$}.!:t: r:ose •■■•• gr.pa.-- fill the]" •~n •a• i• a amaller .,pe of an•i tank g ••• weiah wllnt■ with 11t■eei p•••i■ho,-,.:n almost fantastic tal l:a s nt b Onitei Press correspo dent, Reynolds Packardw£ te ll of an Americ n officer posted at a e ep t one ine in a ouse, ~her ~ he phoned 1 n t r u c t i o s to a t ery of tho e e a nti-t an. guns. ITALY - 2 ----- ith t e transmitter close to his f a ce, he talked in a ' wbisper ~~ s low that the artillerymen .ti-the other end of the ire could scareely her him. He ~ explainedA--Ahe didn~t dare~ talk above a s■ i whisper ~ .... . - - 1 1 . . ~ for fear the Germans would hear hia. ~ were in--/J.t · --~ --~ ,-.,.same house --/\the fighting going on fro, room to room. Over in the editerranean theater of war a medical mir a cle w s e~plained today. The Doctors no now the secret of the remarka le cure that they effected. They understand why Sergeant Palmer's broken arm heeled so quickly and so perfectly. At the bat le front the Sergeant sustained a bad fracture and wa s put in a hospital. fter a while, when the injury was partly heeled, he got tired of being an invalid and grew eager to ejoi his outfit -- the Thirty-~ixth Division, at the fighting 1P front. But the Doctors said no·. He wowi have to wait until his arm had completely mended. He argued with them, and finally a deal was made. If the X-Ray showed that the broken bone had healed perfectly, the Sergeant ou l d be allowed to return to hjs unit. t? The D octors th o ght th : s a . a safe bet, bec a u . the arm c o u ld not pos ibly be okay. accordin to all the BROK E N ARM - 2 --- - - ------ rules of sur ery it would re qu ire some time mo e to he&l.. The X-Ray te s t was made, and the Doctors - ' ' d . 1 ape, __ a m1rac e. The X-Ray pictur s sho ed the fractured bone to be in perfect condition. T h e , ~ () couldn't understand it. fk ■ J But) X-Re.ys don't lie. So all they could do was "9 discharge the Ser eant from the hospital,as cur~d: and he went back to his pals for so me more fighting and excitement • .±b, itbat was the secret of the miracle? Today we have th e s to :f-,._ ~ h e ~ - the ,t s p t l a~ He s w i t ch ed cunning Sergeant fooled the 'banda g ~ h i s broken A arm to his good arm, a thing which the X-Ray Doctor -d.-e ~ bs thex made"p ictures of the ~ Jha t had n eve r never suspected) A_ A miracle f med icinel ..-.miracle of t · ga11! t \ ' The Y rines are on the march in New Britain; but it'4s a slow march. Today's dispatches from advanc l Allied hea quarters tells of a tedious hard-fi g htin g advance from the Cape Glouceste~ rea toward Borgen Bay. '!'here is jungle,and there is thick underbrush,and there are Jape who are being kil ed by the hundreds -- a bitter battle with machine guns, and rifles, grenades, bayonet• and kni•es. I , / clia / y ' full ' ---~0----- The course of the war ~n the southwestern Pacific was prognosticated today by the co ■aander of our naval forces out there, Admiral Give-'e ■ -Hell Halsey. The Ad■ iral who is in Lolf Angeles on a quiet trip 1 told the following to a news conference:- 0 After the boys rol l up i: urope,• he· said "tb.e south Pacific wil get quantities of men and mat e rial. After that,• he went ••.J on grimly; •there'll soon be a huge cel ~ brati n where Tokyo use d to be." Admiral Halsey w a s a sked r h e n he thou g ht the war w ould end, but he ~ouTB,_ TtR PABIFIC - J ____ _,__ ___________ _ refused to make a guess. He rather ruefully reminded when news men of a previous prediction he had made,Alast ' year, he announced that he intended to spend th~ Christmas just past in Tokyo. ~- From Washington we have a stat eme nt concernini the way the Germans and Jape are tz ■ at ■ i treating American prisoners of war. The information is made public by Sen tor lhomas of Utah, a member of a special enate commi~tee on f ■ war prisoners. The Senator's declaration is based on reports from Secretary of War Stimson and the Red Cross. And the facts are expr e ssed in the following words:- II American prisoners ha ~ been generally well taken care of by ~ both the Jape and the Germans. Tor example there is•• the case of Americans held in Manchuria. These according to the ,J International Re d ••• Cros)have received no mail from home since the spring of Nineteen Forty-two. "Bu tj ~ l@I- the dispatch s ayu "they are enerally in good health, et enough food and get good medical care". H e re's word about the new government of Boli via 1 •aisa ie oe b up SJ a 7.· ti I&") O@ICP t El hi 01k now There have been suspicions that the regimeA•••~in • power at LaPaz as aided by·Nazi elements in South America. And tonight y ecretary of St te Cordell Hull declares that there is incre - sing evide c that the he Secretary Bo ivian revolution w s inspired by ifmz ■ ts■ xf••••• t f ~ describes as:-_AMnfr ·e ndly to the defense of the Ameri~an Republic. ~The lecretary did not identify these •unfriendly forces•. But, there is a lot of talk that the overthro of the for!ner Bolivian Government was engineered with the aid of Axis a ents in J..r..,entina, and •w: :tniiQbt aotnlt-:hri. e rpret'"" bbeu auJl- s•a•e•c•--6iii-oAh~ al1Pad ne1u11y at 11gtu-t.ina. ffE9arlier in the day the word was that the United States • l might NpY:'. 1.1~3' refuse to recognize the new government of Bolivia 1 an d mi g ht stiffen its attitude towar the fili~l!l! - 2 rgentine regime, which refuses to take a stand in opposition to the Axis enemy. DEl EY - - ---- In I= 1 York tat e the f o 1 ks a r cons i er i ng a.. n,,-tr financial figure -- One Hundred and Forty Million Dol ars. That sum of money is announced by Governor Dewey in a report on the budget in New ~~~ York. a ~is in the black, not the red. In other words, the State fig_u~es to have a surplus of One - Hundre1 and Forty illion Dollars hy March First. And Tom Dewey has idea about what to•• do • ith the money. In his message to the legislature at Albany he intimates the sad old fac~-- some people I want to get their hands on the cash. Some want to take advantage of the surplus to cut taxes, while others are f•• full of ideas about using the mo"ey to push their pet causes. To all of which Tom De w ey re R ponds -- no. He tells the legislature that the surplus accumul a ted is a r e • · ult of w r-time conditions, and that therefore DE EY - 2 ------ it should e held in trust for the men who are fighting the Be YL,t~ war. urges the legislature " to set up a post-war reconstruct1on fund and put the entire One Hundred and Forty Mil l ion Dollars into it -- to be used in behalf of the veterans when they are mustered out of service. Here's a man saying he bas no ~bjection - ~ to Chicago. which may caus~ a lifting of eyebrows -- in the lindy City where the folks assume that Chicago I\ is the pride and glory of the world. The speaker is endel 1 Willkie who as talk ina on the subject of the city to be chosen as the site of the next Republican Rational Convention. It has been reported that Willkie was opposed to making Chicago the chbice, becaus 0 he regarded Chicago as a stronghold of isolationis ■ -- stamping grounds of Colonel McCormick and the Chicago Tri~une. Willkic most decidedly does not · approve of McCormick and the Tribune. However, he has not the slighte s t objectio ~ to Chicago• -- so he tells us tonight. And he explainsi "l k . now that the delegates will be whol l y unaffected by the attitude of the Chicago Tribune". }! __ • !!Q _ __ _ _ r nf> so f t e .: u n eath f ~r ~ . · rb er t Ho · ·e r il sadden 1 , "'111.t> knew her. I m . elf, h h O J fortune to e njoy h a r a c uaintance, n wa abl . to ppreci te those q ualities so reatly pr· ised hen she was the mistress of the White H~use. ~ s the wife o f the President,, ' she was hjs a visor an d helper in de ~ ree that few re a lized•-- for it ,,, w sher de ire to remain in the backgrouad and pres i d e w i th .. u i t d i n i t y o v e r the n at i on ' s firs t h .1 ehold.1f' tihe w s H e rbert Hoover's he l pful partner ~ngine:~ in his adventurou~•i•i•,ruays far across the Pacific, and she aided him all through the eventful career th a t led to the Ptesidency. Sh e died today in New York at the age of ne a rly sixty-nine, a sud d en heart attack•-- and the ,, former President was with her. fl __ _ 1! __ P o. v f f i c e H i l 1 .r i e l d , U t h , a l r rif 1ng p ck r e w a s t irte n s m 11 1 la s xii•• vi · l s w r p p ed car e l e ssly in newspapen Ra i um -- r i u m t 1~ t ha d be e n s tol n from an airplane, t ,. 4).1 ins t rum nt-re pa ir- lent. 1 The thi t;t~he vials of r ad ium - - not k ■■ g knorin obvi ) pro e rties of th e s tuff, which can on people expos d to its radiati o n. usly the deadly hav : , . affects 1, Ur g ent w rnin g s were issued explainin g that radium can break down the red corpuscles in the blood· and ca use the disintegration of thP bones. ~esumably the thief took notice of thew rnings-- and ••x als!f;,he fact th t ne couldn't possibly di s pose of the strange and d a n g ero u s lo o t. S o he returned the ra d ium by ordinary mail -- and thi s i m peril e d p ost office peo . l e who h a n led it. Th e y h a ve be n instructed how to t a ke prec a u t i ons a ai n t p o s i b l e ill effects cause d by t he r ad ium. _y_fi 1' r at, . o rtl an Or ' on a youn n r d a t th e h o e o f .. rs . J ..a....a,..y John s on . H e w 1 k e d int o the ho se, an said: - "Hel l o Mom, here I am". Mrs. Johnson gasped a s at an a parition. It · as her son Air Force Li e ut nant Merle Johnson, who was on record as - - "mis s in g in ac t ion", after being shot down over Nazi Germany. Li e ut nant Johnson was a co-pilot of the F l y in Fortres, Bl ck Ghost, which on a raid against Nazilan d was ganged by Nazi • fighters. Today ~ ~ told how the enemy planes riddled the Fortress, knoddn g out two e ngines -- and the Black Ghost was doomen. 'l' he c re i· b a i 1 e d o u t . ~ " I was the n in th man to le a v e the hip", relat s the Lieutenant, "and I c a n say that every man's parachute opened" .1f'rhey ~ lan~ed and w e r s made p ri~oners.-- So ho w d oes it hap .i en that Li , : utenant Johnson sh owed u p at his moth , er 8 o m e 1 n P o rt 1 a n d • r e on t o d y? ' 1 he s t or c an n o t co i p let e l old . H o e c ape d,A{ -ot ou of ~~ p r i o n J ~ \ N a z i G e rm a n y 1 a nd m ad e hi s w a y lFa t,~ to . . _ - -+-::_ -'-, ... ~ Bu t just how a nd w ith whose help -- GH!~ w i l l have tv rem a in a secret. until a f t er the war. 0 -- .. C li orni a 's hi man hunt nde d to d yin MP phis, Tennessee. On th~ n after ChriFtmas there , as a j ai l bre ak at San ~uentin pri s on, a nd four ut c9nvic ts got out. One 1 · a s recaptured...,~JA the othe~ three, k eeping t o g e t h e r , ~ n a wild career of ,, A I\ banditry -- commiting a series of holdups. lsz liigl&gi a Cal ifo rni a The escape cause~sensatio~ a n ~ out a check up at the prison - ~ the ~ police,,.J"ar and - ~ wide conduct.a. a dramatic A search for the three desperados- fhe success of the local man-hunt is indic a ted by the fact that the capture was finally made more than half way across t h e ~ ~ ~ 'l-= nnessee. The three e ~ caped convicts ended their fugitive c ~ re e r with quite a c l imax. There w as a big hot 1 robcery a t Ja ckc: on, M issis s ippi, the crooks et in a w ~ ~ith T e n Th o us nd o l a r . The hunt for th e m end e i n , mp hi ~ ..,~~ w here they • ere cs.ptur d; a nd ~ - t / k . _ ~ ~ --t/iL. ou~ t:e t ~ t h r e e e s capers from ~ kz~ ■.Ait turne e.i.if,r11ia. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ -fe-, ~ ~ tl.,.~ ");".-.( ~ ~~~~ N ----- I I? n ' ' r t h P o l j c e p i c k e u p J k s t a r r u e h ew s n't c rr i g a d r ft c a rd. They up cted hi of e ::!2. i ~ i la r rvic e , · hereupon J a ck (' t arr ) d cl a r d :- )I on't nee d dr f t card ... ~ " ' ,h not,A' the co p s ~ < lvwa 111:lud e "T a ke m e to had uarters and I'll explaintlv.'' J said Jack ~tarr. -ta.e poliee wei e paz:z1et1 antl they weru more /( / ~ pvPpie1ti:a cbe~ t headquarters Jack Starr insisted on giving the explanation to the police matron. Th, two ~ confabulated briefl;ff:;;4 ttoa,~th~matron disclosed the secret. Jack Starr certainly didb~t need a draft card, bee us he w - s a she. Be was re a lly Jac q ueline ~ Moret who wzz or forty-seven years had been posing as a an. "I've a l~ a ys r pr e sented myself as a J ~ ~ , ' an•• ~ ~nd nohody ever ue ~ tioned me until now". That is, ,·a ~-::.-- ~ n o 11111 un i h r ft c me a lon . Jae u l i n ~ ~ ~>qJl&:iiae-ct th t, n masculine uise she had V/Orked in shipyard~ as a riv ter" and a steam fitter: she hRd 4). ? ~ dri ven trucks/ a n "be e n a longshoreman. ~ she.•- ? ~ "I' al so a good bartender. That last u al if i cat i o nA-s=Ull~~-~ settle~ the at t ~ 1.., hop ■ , - A. ~ .-,.1)!::;,., par ..i:+,, the p a ~ , ~ L" J ac ueline go "i,4 on bein a n. llhy make h@11 Jae a we ■ aa &ai lea e, y "'--- H re's t o ry of a oy w ho dr R med of ein g a fur tr a p 1· e r, as m an another oy ha ,.. dreamed. At Minn e a p o is, Geor e Fle P t read adventure books ~o~ about f ur trapping; saved his pennies and bought a " tr r p. fhis he tsms took out into the country, set it accor ing to iai instructions, and left it there or the night.1-. The next morning George went out to his tr p and was he proud -- he had caught a fur bearing animal. The eleven y € ar old lad w a s not too sure about the species of the critter which, as it ~~ ~pp-s.a•e•~was a shunk. Geor e has a tough sense of smell, and went right ahead in what he considered the ~t.~~ pro er way of a fur t r apper.-- 41:eAstuck the skunk L ~ ~~ in a bag7,l_walked down~the hi g hway and there boarded a stre t car. In a inute p a s s e n g e r s ~ . . , , en ~ ~- · i n . 0'1S. A'th e m o L orman stopped the c a r. A Fingers were - 2 p o int e a t G o .tFWfh e l ay con u c tor, holdin er n o s e , c ort e him off the c r. hereupo n Geor g e v : alked the r r-t of the . ay, still c rryin the •••kxi skunk in the bag. He wEnt to a furrier who saw it was a good pelt and gave George fi ty cents for it. This convinced the lad that he was a great fur trap p er a nd he proceeded to invest part of his earnings by oing to am vie. As to strode down the aisle to a seat there was a p nic, with the audience trying to get away -- which ~~-~-~ only go s t o sh ow wha t;\a peie=•8' can do to a small boy's clo t. hes;or 1 anybody's clothes for that matter. Th e theater manager got George out and chased him down the street. Whereupon the lad figured that about all he could do was ta, go home,\¥hich he di j-- and,his mother ne - rly f a inted. Tod a y h e 1 n s chool, a fter a num er of bat hs , w e rin e a ne · suit. But he s ti 1 thinks he's _ _1 - 3 t c