G ' : : y --- -- - J • .1 - - ---~---------■ I T G a n r d io lo ' a y d c area t ~ t in o t e a ster n , n , - · n th ~ r e 1 s a rea t mobil i z ion of i n v s·on rces. The Ge r r p ort a c o ncentr tion of troo s n d ?la , inc udin air borne forces. Als o - 1 ve in s wee p ing in the n lish Channel. The c a n ut of ene y-laid mine ould, of course, be a n ece s ry relimin ry for an invasion thrust across th e n a rov a ters to France. B~rlin thin k s that la n i n m.=1;41@ =tlN-5 ~--wn=e:.A-..JJ.u ea might ha pp en a t any om t!f;.he Germ ns, to be sure , are not certain. They ar e try i ~ " aybe ," says the Ber li n ra d io concerning the invasion preparat ions, "maybe this is merely window- d X Th · po . esm t n today thinks that res s in ." e az1 "' pos ibly t h da e of the inv as ion of wester n E uro e h as be en ad an ced, a n g ive the O inion that it h ad b P l nned for next Spring. n o ri g i all G . . --- ---- .. Th i:; is on · o n e ex m p of azi orry bo ut i nv i O • n e Medi er anean theatre , Ro mel is S o. i u. a ntici pa te l anding thru sts at various p a c es - but c an't t ell h1'ch . Th G e erm n ar e reported to be h s . bui l ' in d f ens salon the R iviera, the co . 5 0 ou er n France. Also - the' Bal .:a ns, here : h a z i 8-½"@.➔ Q,POl't.ei- t,, have increased their strength e c n 1 from i ht divisions to eighteen. An d Rommel i s a r ' of la ndin s behind the Germ n line in Italy the le~ p -frog in d of move to establish brid g ehea s the azi fighting front. Rommel is pictured as bing worried about th e re a l m ning of the present c a m p aign in Italy. D t a real Y seri~us Allied blow? oes it r ep resen Or is it feint in preparation for lar er strokes of ar to come in other sectors? Such are the ue ses that our enemy in J urope is S ?- 1 o be ma in g - orr in nd surm isi ng , not k n o i n g h a t to ex pect . All o hich would seem to be th . r es u t of Allied st rategy based on the old r nci 1 of - keep 'em g uessing. - Th n ws from Ital y . i·c tu e Al l ied thr sts at b o th e remi i s o f the l ine across the Ita l ian n U ,J. a th t p e - e we s coas t ab o ve Na p le s an d the r iati c hare on . the o pp o s ite side. Gene 1 Cl a rk's Fifth Ar m y plun g ed ahe a d for a ga·a of t o miles. The Fifth Ar m ·~ is thrust~ along the main road to Rome, and is threate ni n g a town called Teano, which is a junction point where subordin a te roa s join t . rincipal hi hway to t--he Eterna l Cit. Teena ie. of M th is teen tpos~. ot \ o ne 0 h g hest try, ~ Numb a hich is ~ I- the a n s e ies of efenses Army advance w as accomplished under T oda y's Fifth ost diffi cult conditi ns, th e o rst of weather - a de l u ge of rain. It was supported, o n th e oth r h nd, # ,. - If. b c... 1 bomb - en - Ali d w a rs hi , a hurling s a l vo s o.[ ins enemy troo p s a nd strong p oints fourteen mi es b bo b a e h ind t e fi gh ting l ine. The naval sque d ron th co ast al on ~ - a : - ~ the Gulf o f Gaeta. Across the peninsu a, G@netcd M ontgomery's i hth Army for ed ahea d for an advance of four miles_ fi f h ve It must be made clear that none of the Allied ad v n ces re p orted tod a y constitute in any sense a d f l ·ne the Ger a ns have . en et r a on o f the ne e e nse e stab i hed . The a d vances mean th a they r e co m in g u p ~ ? L e . ~ ~ - r RU IA --- --- Th on as r ~ o iask S s otli ht of th e Ru s1· n w a f d'P'cuses toni ' ht in g are a of flat land , ca l led - "t he p p e " I ~ a t y pical section of the v as t meun~~CN!"& plains of Rus s ia - he Step es. This one in p artic ula is in the an le af that th e River Dnieper ma . e s with th e coast~ as it flo s ~to the Black Sea. In their s er ies of drives to trap and crush.the Nazi for ces in the bend of the Dni e p er and on the p eninsu a of the Crime a , the Sovi P. ts are sm as hing - across the No g iask Step p e. An d there they are scoring .,e.t, thei r maximum of success - as p ictured in theAnews.~ Moscow reports a d vances of as much as fifteen ~ iles tod a y , with the capture of e~ghty towns. The Ger a ns o n the No g i sk Steppe are s a i to be in a state xiiA i t at assuming the of di o rgani zation, •• the r re re t l 'th hue losses of men a nd p ro po rtions of a rou, w e ui p m nt. - U , IA - -..------ The a zi r m a c hine, o n th e oth r hand, e o b hol in i ts own a th a t k ey point farther n rt h , the i o n c e nt e r o f Krivoi Rog - midway across t e b e n o f the Dnieper . As e he ar d the other evening, t ey ' ve ot to hold Krivoi ~ ........ o g to .eep open an escape r oute for their l arge forces in the bend. etaerwiee.. cow nter atta ut hes b ck. 00 VE: T --------- The o s co confer e nce i s a tr em end o us success - s o st ~ te Presi d ent Roos e velt tod a y. At hi s r eg ular n e s c o nf e r c e, he spoke with enthusiasm about the curr nt conf & bulati on s o f Americ a n Se~r e t a ry of State Cordell Bu l l, British Foreign Secr e tary Anthony Eden, a n d Soviet Foreign Comissar Molotov. The President , d eclared th, t a g reements have alre a dy been re a ched, and will be signed shortly. What sort of agreements? l i b ~ ~ said it was still too early to be s e c ific, an d added that when the.documents are the terms will be announced, probably in Moscow. Tlle e;ra e 11 n t; 1 e&ttlt»e e f ~he eonfe 1 ence th us- 1 1, gf the foreiSQ m~is~er~ w-h-G were seyiag that tbe ta .. s . ·00 aod rnu±Ysl ai!t>r1:11~ w0ula b-1' cleeaed ~y S\!&pici b aeeemi,Hshed ill Mos-cow. an d t-he.t littl..e-~d 9 p r es ent c onfab u lat ions He was a sk ed wh ther th e ould \ 0 0 ;- ------ le , d to tha big time conferen ce , th a t hea dlin e o, -wow, hich h as been tal k ed about so much - a me tin of the three star actors on the sta e of war, R oo ·e velt, Churchill and Stalin. The President re lied t c1 h idn't now any more about that than he did a cou p le of weeks a g o. He tied his remarks about the foreign ministers in Moscow with a closely a~lied theme - the resolution for international cooperation that is being deba t ed in the Senate. He sai d that Messrs. Hull, den and ol0tov had got together without being pled e d to any very specific program in advance, w e r ~ - - t , - ~ ~ rent.ei.~ And so their P -F-, d ~ t ~-~~ ~ success reasoned the res1 en '" r ' ,·~ d'.\-h avin thin g s in rather general form - without being if he thought that the too specific. In conse q uence, en t r ·· o 1 t ion s O u d b e 1· n g en eralit i es , it ho ut oin i nt o exc es si ve d etail , bee use if the t er ms w re too c l o s ly d f ined, they m i g ht have to b e ch a n g ed in the l i & h t of la ter events. And this see m ed to be ~ re · ential okay of the re elution as it stands be f o r e the enate ri ht now - couched in generalities. The Pre si d ent did not give his approval in so many ords, but it was im p lied. All of hich would seem to g ive White Bouse ba c · ing to the middle-of-the-road Senate resolution ~hich h a s bee n attacked from both si d es - by some who ant s omethi ng more definite and specific, · e.nd by oth r who don't want any post-war re s olution at all. ar do n some more Jap shi p s to the credit of Am r ic n subm a ins - ten more sunk, as announced by the Navy today, and four others damaged. This latest list of enemy ships destroyed by our undersea fleet inclu d es fr ei hters, tankers and trans p orts - whittling don t e tonna e the Jape need so badly. R UBBER ------- To da •e have an announcemen of a new and vitally import a nt development in t h e ~ ~ ~ . " synth tic rubber. A discovery has been made which aow permits synthetic rubber to be turned out many times fast r than was previously the case. The news comes from the reat Sun oil plant at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, where Eugene Boudry, the French-born chemist, has been working in collaboration with Sun Oil that h comes they call - the subst least in process, I C ~11s - "a mat er of m nutes." th e announcement _Q!H~ ~ - - 2 Switching from the Sun Oil at Marcus Hook,to thE lar Production Board in Washington, we come upon a most im p ort nt article made of synthetic rubber - im p ortant for the la ies - a new'type of girdle. Tod ay the PB Xh .b1"ted a ~-,c 0 o~ girdle that is • • . e 1 • expected to be !, ut on the ma rk t early next year. It is de scribed as p ink in color and ma d e of s a tin nd UBBE - 3 ---------- elastic. The qualities of the girdl~eacribed ~ by a girl e ployee of the W.P.B., who has been trying . it out, we ring it day after day to work - a sort of girdle euine pig. An d today ahe gaYe a report. She said it was, in her own words, •quite satisfactory.• The new synthetic rubber girdle is still not yet quite perfect, which fact ~4ird1Pfte-~ put in the following words: "There are still a few bugs ~~~ in it to be worked out," said she. - --t:F- -ffu. ~ . ,A:11 11 t, t tt:11: l UM FI = •a::ug& Ar t]j C 5 =W I VIII!!'" .......... UII f .., ~ gi1J.lu", 1·11 leiie@ . ~ • L I, j en 1,11 1 , if 14, to .,,.1"' ••=e9u• ... -- -- ~ Today in th · i/Jl.. e deUar1gny trial,~attorney for the de ense scored a neat point in cross-examining a prosecution witness. It b u d to do with the marks of the case ~ount 1 murdered Sir Harry Oakes - singed hair having been found in deKarigny's beard and on his ar ■ s, which led to the contention that the singing had occurred when the bed of the murdered man was set on fire with an inflammable liquid. Today's witness was police ~aptain James - Barker of Miami, and the prosecution puts a lot of emphasis on his testimony • . Be was being questioned concern in the clues in the murder mystery, when suddenly ~efense _!!,torney Godfrey Higgs changed the subject, d k d • "Are tb se marks on your hands an as e . burns?" DE IIA IG Y - 2 __ ,_, ____ _ "Yes," re lied the police official. The attorney for the defense then asked him how he got the marks of fire on his hands. "I burned them while setting fire to some gasoline,• res p onded the witness. · Whereu p on the lawyer turbed triu■phantly to the jury. •Here,• he proclaimed, ~is a police officer with burned hanJ; Does that mean he has committed a crime?' ~~ point neatly scored. /\ INDIA ----- To a across th e c b l es cam e the sort of thing th a is c lcul a t e d to give pleasure to a newsman - a rema a bly well written story, vivid reporting, with a gift of hrase. But this fine news story was about one E of the world: With all the horror and terror of W_!r, something is happening m o ~ s t i l l - famine, famine in India. So this excellent reporting, instead of giving pleasure , sounds a sombre note of pity.r:-1-u,a• a:111 u ~ =to. ~c~ The newspaperman is Walter Briggs, a correspondent of the United Press. He's a young veteran of oriental newspaper work, anfi here is something by way · t been of a striking coincidence. Walter Briggs has JUS a arded the Order of the Purple Heart for valor on the fighting front in Burma. lt:8 . . . Wounded in action. is not about deeds of war, Bis disp a tch today, ho ever, ::: I~DIA -------- but about th famine. He rites: "Calcutta is a city of the living dea d . Buzzards by the thousands,• he goes on, •circle over this second city of the British Empire. Hungry natives. too baciated even to.~eg, litter the stre e ts. ' On Calcutta's Fifth Avenue, Chowringhi Road,• he continues, •it is difficult to keep fro ■ stumbling over starving persons who stretch almost naked on the sidewal k s. "Today and tomorrow,• Waiter Briggs observes, "are the Hindu holidays commemorating the goddess of death an d destruction - Iali. She is tre~:-armed, do~'k ~ •. ~ ~ •xa•a k au titv"lP - who wears a necklace ofA skulls.• t tell \.. ow those ut'., can., buy He goes on o n Of Kali to throw into the Bugli gaudy i••~i••• images to de stroy the pow e r of the River or into fires - Wicked oddes s . Kali the diety of death and But ' 1 L IA - 3 ------ des t r uc tion, is havin her da rk way and the deaths fr o m famine are m ounting by the thousands_ which Wa lt er Bri s expresses in this symbolice::i phrase: "Jilhou tted a ainst the streaked rays of the setting sun," he w r ites, •the buzzards circle tonight.• He oes on to say that the new Viceroy of India, Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, is in Calcutta inspecting the scores of free kitchens, where the British GoYern~ent and charitable organizations dole ~ ~~ out wh a t.,..eaa~ is available.- .,ZnadequahA ~ the starving famine sufferers of the city number a hundred a n d thirty thousand. ~ H ••=Pl ";e news rL the famine 1:n For days, - - A d h ? Some while ago, I traveled India, I wondere - • Y , ttf;;J. ~ 7:/ . 4 e ~ ~ t . ly 4f; Men e:::e ·l'llii&AJt tha b: out there - ex ens 1 ve •/\ 111 - ~ bad finally overcome ~Ind ia, the ancient l and of famine, the cur se . The B ritish-r d· th d rformed n 1an 2overn a.en, a pe I DIA - 4 ___, __ _ what appeared to be 8 miracl e. the British, to conquer fa ine, had built railroads bv J which food could be trans p orted quickly to stricken areas. And they had, mor e ov e r, constructed huge i 1 rr gation projects_ greatly increasing India's food production. So, with a b a ckground of travel in India, I wondered i\ famine now? I've just come upon .tblt. explanation - told ■e by a ■ an who knows much about it, Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Hood, J R ~ Direct or-General o~ Military Medicine. - ---- -·-----•··-- ~ - l{o ",I . , s aid the reason was twofold - Buraa 1 and boarding. He explained that Burma was normally a large producer of food for India - India's rice bowl. And the Ja p e now have Burma. But that alone would not have caused the famine. There b a s been wides p rea d boarding - pe ople who ~uld buy fo od p rocuring it an d hiding it away. When I.DIA - 5 - · .-.----- the Ja p s took Burma, India's rice bowl, they became -~~ ~ J'l)PAwAi, frightened - ~they've been hoarding~~iaxsakaax has taken vast quantities of rice out of circulation in India. ~-ine resul~ ••• biN - faaine_.,o,,,i &e ~ . ~ .e-A ~ ~ ~.ec..,,-0 ~ ~ ' 1 : 4 . ~...,.._,zJ. - . ..,_ : - - ___...-- --- !' ' fr Jt C& - n C c. E 0 it&fo's .. • C. . . - c:: £ C. ~ ~ C. e r, D. ng f: - e.: "" C. . s s 6 e i• ·t ' g .... g e . &., a s · E. _f e g e e . .., e _e a & e __ e _ -s . •1· b e xhaus' · n.