The latest from MacArth~r states:-
·•our
drive
up
the Leyte
Valley
continues unchecked•.
And,
reports from war correspondents indicate that
invasion of Leyte Island
has now reached the
stage
of~
little more than a mopping up operatio
~~;,,...........,.:
....
.......,..
_
_
_
Spora4ic groups of Japs continue to put up a bitter
resistance,
but
the enemy is being forced
back
against the west Coast.
And the latest tonight
pictures
MacArthur
troops as being within eight
miles
of that western shore line. When
therb•r~c
t
ts
-G..~
reach.- it, they wil~~ut Leyte in two.
MacArthur informs us of
JapaneN attempts
to reinforce the garrison of t~e island,••*
by
ao~ing
.
troops
across twenty-eight miles of water --
fro■
the
island of Cebu. These at_teapts have been smashed,
with strafing planes and P
!
boats destroying or
damaging
twenty
two barges and two luggers which were
carryi~g enemy troops.
This occurred off the little
ial•~•x■f
harbor of Ormoc on the west coast of Leyte
__ which place is
a Japanese bas~ and is
likely
to be the scene of the final enemy
stand
on Leyte.
1t'•s a port likewise from which the
u■aa re■nant~
of the
Jap
garrison
may try to escape.
Only a few thousand of the Japa remain.
Their original orce
having
incurred
ao■e
twenty-tour
thousand casualties.
The latest
A■ erican
report.-r
,,.
PBILI~.ll!~S-~
.......
IS
ea:
,1
\eiar
...
witlt
tac
+.,
11t1ooa
hlsu·
a
e, .,..
f?Ye
\h•••• Iopa
ke lof 5; :t.he
ene■(C'.;i;:: t!lN:":::;:.HlUo■ ;.tn
• Ip
.
rep•~
of losses gives the following· figures: Seven
hundred and six killed, two
hundred
and seventy aissing,
and twenty-two hundrid and forty-five •11Dded:':he
broad picture is that
the battle
for
Leyte
is rapidly
approaching
a
close,
and
G
·
eneral MacArthur
jubilantlJ
announces that the
impetus
of the invasion will not
slacken.
Bis forces will not relax their grip
until, as jacArthur
says,
WBataan and Corregidor once
aore rise into life.•
M
9
anwhile there is
a
report that the Japa
have declared ~artial law in
Maai•
Manilla. They
know the crisis has come for them in the Philippines,
and probably \heJ are having increasing difficalties
with the Philippine resistan,ce forces -- hence
martial l a w . ~
CHINA
--
A new American commander arrived in China today,
taking
the pl
a
c
e
of General Siilwell, who has been
recalled.
Be
is ~ajor General Wedemeyer, who hithert
has been Deputy Chief of Staff to Lord Louis Mountbatte
in the Southeast Asia command.
Be
now
beco•s Chief
Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Iai-Shek, succeeding
Stilwell.
This news coincides with much discussion about tile
reason why
Stilwell was taken so suddenly out
of
China.
We
h e - : t ; ~ ~ o l e thing goes back to
an American-
Chinese controversy about the way the China war has been
going -- not
so
good. Today's news,
for
exaaple, is that
the Japs are now within seven miles of the
key
city
of
~
(weilin, which was the
s
ite
o f ~ great American air
base that has
now
had to be abandoned.
W-hat~-\M
ou.bl
Iai-
Chinese
been
that they
anything
ad quate
mament and
to h ic h
CHINA
~l
-
militazy
tffotts -ea,
9
11
e
di:
-
e a
a
1'
the ...
tea Pemeaat»aaea
abe11t. -\h1
ec
-,,
]:'he
leadership of Vinegar Joe in China bad been extolled
to
the
skies.
Chiang hi-Shelc, however,
~~-;;,!(.{.
~~~'
.
.
.
-ef
ell-&r~s aesinel
1:1,!!lell, elu•••i
a ■aag
atlieP ~h111s-s
\.ftat
tb
I
tscriean
Liaais
not
8e11oral •••
ii■apadie&~1,eCP
oai,cs
&,
bha
I
n
a,
8Mla:..ul wa,
a
-aoallai, aa4 • od:•f-
M-:~
tr
ral
Weie-aep
I
r •
ggk:
tria
ptace ab
Ohungai&g.
the
Chinese
capital
was
without
the benefit of ceremony,
m~t
infor■al
-- no brass
band,
no
cheering
thron
g
s.
Today's news dispatch
describes
Wedeme7e!'s
reception as •austere.•
'ftle.
.Qeaeral wae aakea wha.i he
tagws at
aeoat
thr
a
.
1
n•elopments. De
Pe
plied:
1
1 -41en'
t
ha••
waa\
i.1
1
e
ll'lJ..
a-iout yet, Thi• 1ame
to
me-en Wedntsda,, aid heN
I••••
!DD CBI!!
Here's the latest __ a statement by
President Roosevelt. Be confirms the fact that the
recall of General Sti~~ll was because of differences
7/';,t
~-tl\Jl.,r\._,~:. ........
fi4CD
between Stilwell an~
ttl:tuq
lit-
She"
The Presi•dent
said that it
all
began
soae
while ag
'
o, when the
Aaerican
Commander ha.d a falling out with the Chinese war
leader. And they simply couldn~t get along together
an7 more.
After$ all, said the President, Chiang
Iai-
Shek
is the he ad of the Chinese government and
eoa11ander
in-Chief of th Chinese
·
ara7.-- fJ.nd., with thia
·
reminder,
the Pres dent said that
it
was pretty muoh as if Great
Britain assigned an official to Washington
who ■
be,
the President, disliked intensely.
In that
case he
would tell Prime Minister Churchill to send
somebody
the
~
else. And he added tba~Cbiang Iai-Shek - Stilwell
not
feud was
a matter of personalties -=Jone of policies.
c:,
fhe Pre1,ieat
alee •i,ooleeea
+,•~ __
r
/J/J
~--~ ..
-~,()-- Q ~ J
t t -
~
~
~ :
·11•i•s
A11eR1l8&N-
E TERN F
J!Ql!I
In Bolland two British columns today drove
to the
;ver
■ aas.
In the complexity of
waterway•
that
is
Bolland,
the
Maas is in
such
a position that
$.
Ah
L--------~
~
"--,,,,,.1:
th
w--
■--
-
7{
e escape of the
Geraan
in
western
Bolland. Between ten and twenty
thoU11an
of these have already
got
acroas the stream,
aaking
an escape from a closing trap. And'at last reports
enem7
fugitives were still trying to get...._ in
frantic baste.
A large force. however, still remain•
in the
West
Rolland trap, and today's British pua h
to the
Maas
brings their chief•bridges for
eacape
under artille17 fire. The whole
situation
there is
one of German collapse.
It
,,s
different, however. further south
where
lazi armor near the city of Eindhoven ha~ been launchin
desperate
counter-attack ■. _.-iiie British
have
joined
the Americans in
beating off the assault
5
•ilk
x
e,f
~ ~ e a !
"1"fr~
of two panzer div is
ions.
Seesaw
fighting is going on,
with
one
side
s■ rging
forward and
bl·tter struggle is comentrated at
then the other. The
a
tiny
town
wh
ich
has
changed hands four times in
t
enty-four
hou
r
s.
-rl-o
~ -
~ e r
.n
an
~
staeki-ag-,
And the
r
e is b
·
ter
fighting
along
the
coast of
the No
r
th
the Schelde.
There
Canadian
roops
for days
been
trying
to
clear
out
Ger
m
ans,
and open
the great
port
of
die-bard
'1t,erp. Te
latest
news tells of
a bitter
fight for
along
which
the Canadians advanced~
heavy losses in the face
of
savage
Once again tonight, bombers of the British
R.A.F. are attacking the flaming city of Cologne.- -
t
~ , , - o f l ~
tNP=0&
the seventhAa.:atlsaw• raid against the
/'-
71
Rhineland metropolis which
is
the next objective
for General Hodge's First
Army.
And the Air Ministry
in London indicates that during the past four days,
more than
ta
ten thousand tons, well over twenty
■ illix>n
pounds) of bombsjhave
fail■iaxa
fallen
·
upon
Cologne, from which city an
ia■ense
glow rises hi1h
into the sky tonight.
AIR
AR
-~--------
Another story in the
~ets
of the air
war
tells
of the greatest example thus far of blind bombing,
ana
at the same time-- precision bomb!~g.
~~
invit~~1e
target hit with
pinpoint accuracy.
et,
The target was . . .
"
section of one of the most remarkablefiecee of
■■&i■■■ztil
engineering in the world -- a great
Gean canal that
runs
all the
way
from Berl in to the Ruhr 'Valley,
a¼•q.,
- ·
The surprising feature of the canal is --
it rune over the rivers along t h e / f ~ It croBB<!S
~e
rivers by means of aqueducts, great pumps forcing
1
the
wa+
er
up
the
lope
s
.
This
c
::i.
nal betv.een Benin
a
n
d
the Ruhr is
one
of
themost
important lines of
German military transport
-- an
d
the American bomber
com
~
and
in Brit
a
in
de
cided to hit it and
put
it out of
oper
a
ti
o
n.
Offhand, you
might
have thou
0
ht that one of the
worst
of
days wa
s
selected for the assault -- a cloudy
day, the
sky
blanketed by dense
overcast.
Yet
a
powerful fleet of Liberators flew from Britain to
a
~$~.~
...
~
the
4ften •11-, ~et, t.hua.
\.Aey
gealinLt
nee
#.-.cl
t'U-
~
r•all: ia
thu
c
waterway
being held
at
that
point by m
a
ssive
stone
barriers twenty feet high.
It
was blind bombing all right, the projectiles
aimed entirely by instrument -- and it was a masterpiece
of
pinpointing
an
invisible target.
t
showed.
that !he
-1.ata:zs
·
~econnaisance p4.c ures
canal
hit
squarely,
the exploding bombs
smashing open a breach eighty-five feet long.
"~nd the
d.
g lowlands.
whole
canal poured into the Surroun in
T
he water
wa
y
'I,
a
s
emptied for
a
distancev:r:>~
L
three
I\
miles,
and
some thirty big barges
and
tugboats
were
left stranded on the
muddy
bottom.
~Be flood inundated
a faeto:ry e~etion,
a:na
i+.
wil
l
take Lbw ~»mane wee•e,
if
8
e,
I1un
t
lu;,
to
Pop
&
ir
the
Berlia
Rtthr
wat»erwe:y -&Bi,
put it
iftio opePatsica
L8&iB
ae
oae ,gf tho sreats
NaB~
lines.
of mi]
itaPy
t:r1u,ap
»I-='
p
LI I
S
-------
Pr
i
ent
oo
s
e
ve
lt h
as
added still
another
p
oliti
ca
l
speech
to hi..,
schedule
a radio address
fro
the
fh
"t
e
Rouse
on Thursday night. Along
with
this
~
w
e hav
e
the annoum ement that the
President
will
not make a
pear
ances in Cleveland or Detroit.
It
had
been
rumo ed
that he would make speeches in those
two
citi
es
-- the
Democratic
lea'ders in Ohio and
~ichi
g
n
wanted
him to. Instead, as a compromise, the
re
s
ident
will
give
a
radio ca paign talk from the White
Another item of political news comes from
Hnne. ota,
·
where a committee of Stassen Republicans~
disavowed the recent action
,of Minnesota
Sen
a
tor Ball,
who has come
out
in
f
avor of a Fourth Term. Senator
Ba
ll
was a prominent
supporter of
Commander
Harold E.
Stassen, former
Governor of
Minnesota,
for th e
Republic an
nomination,
a!'\
d
the question
wa
s
whether
he
re
p
es nte
any
1
ge s
~
cti
0
n o
·
t
he
Stassen
adherent,
wh
en
he
ecl
a
re
..
I ''
for
Pre16ien*
Roose
velt.
No,
responds
the co
mittee
of Stas
H
en
Re
p
ublican ■
today.
They
decl
a
re that
t
he Sen
at
or s
p
oke only for
himself,
a r d ~
~
ur
ge
th
e
electi n of
Governor
De
w
ey.
~
~
!liQQ§AN
D
__ OL_
AR_CL
UB_
P r e s i d ~ t di closed late this
afterno
o
n th
a
t
l
eAis a member of the Thousand Dollar
Club w
h
ich or
ga
ni
a
ti
o
n
ha
s drawn
some
acid Republican
criticism. That is -- the outfit, each member of
which
pays a Thousand Dollars to the De
m
ocratic Campaign
Fund and in return
gets
some sort of special status.
The President
added
that
h
was
surprised to find
himself
a
member of the club
--
although h e ~
made the sug esti n for its formation:Fin talking
to Some people
laft
summer be suggested why not start
~
a
hundred thousand dollar club.
:
ii
4
•~
-
MAI'
accompanied by the remark that no one
would
contribute that much.
Then he suggested,
well, why
not a Ten Thousand Dollar Club?
That also got
a
laugh.
Whereupon the Presi~ent said,
how
about a
Thousand Dollar Club.
today
f••i~kk/\he
stated· that be forgot about the
whole thing and then some aays ago•• was surprised
t
h .
cert1·r1·cate.1f "Wbat does the
o receive a members
1p
certificate entitle you to?" he was asked.
-
The
P
re
.
id
e
nt said be would have to find
out,
a
nd
h
e didn't explain whether or n
o
t he
was
co
n
tributin
g
a T
l.
ousand
Bucks.
-
7
H
e
r
e
a
r
e
t
h
e latest fi
g
ur
ev
about Japanese
l
o
sse
s
in t
he
g
r
ea
t American N
a
v
a
l
a
n
d
A i i ; , A ! ~
,,,r/.
t
he P
hil
i
p
p
ine
s
: The
N
a
vy
has just announced
th
a
t c
a
rri
e
r-b
a
s
ed
-planes of the Third and Seventh
Americ
a
n
fle
et
8 h
av
e de
stro
y
,
d
two-thousand-five-
hundre
d-
an
d
-
n
·
nety-four
•••••J
enemy planes in the
,
air
a
n
d o
n t
h
e
round durin
g
the past two months.
I
n
a
d
d
itio
n
, t
w
o-
h
u
nd
r
ed
-and-two were damaged or
probably
d
estroyed. American losses
were
three hundred
c
a
rrier base
d
plane
s
. The ~•i ratio is nine
Jape
knock
ed
out for every
American· plane lost.\uring the
~
period
covered
b
:
r
the repor;,t
T~
great naval and
air bat
t
1
e
of
the Phi 1
i
p
i-
'
in es
was won - -
and t be
bul~)
mai~of the ene
m
y air losses
w
ere sustained
while
the
Japs were taking their big
licking •
•
A
E
-
---
on
' t
no
,
b
ut this
sounds
1
1
·ke
/JI>
an au-time
'
reco
r
--
~ e n e
.n
y
pl nes
shot down
by
one fighter
ilo
t
in
e a
in
g
l
e
air
b
a
ttle. Nine d estro~d and
two~
-
prob
ably
des
troyed
in thirty-five minttes of action.
It o
cc
urr
ed
durin
the
early
sta
g
e of the American
sea
a
n
air victory off the
Philippines,
and the
hero
wa
s
Co
ire r
D
a
v
id
i
c
Camp
be 11 of Lo s Ang e 1 es •
In
rapid successi
)
n he shot down nine --
nine
for sure,
~
and t
w
o
probably
.imuct-=tk"1N
This raises Commander
/\
McC
amp be 11'
s
total
to
thirty and puts him in
de
tie
for second place among American air aces -- a tie
with
Captain
Don Gentilly, whose victories
were
scored in
The top scorf'is still Major Richard Bong
: A ~
iaconsin,
who,
during
~
air battles of
Europe.
of Poplar,
the
P
hilippines, shot
down some more
Japs
and ran his
own total up t
·
o thirty-three.
-
bag of nine shot down
with
two
probables,
w
s
made
when American carrier-
b
as
ed
fighters
assailed a formati
o
n of Jap planes
that wer
e
coming in to bomb and torperlo
American
warships.
MicCampbell
was accompanied
by
six other
fighters of his
group.
Five of the Americas
went
after the dive bombers and torpedo planes,
while
the other two assailed
tMa
Jap fighvers, cover
i
ng the
attack.
Y~Campbell describes the events that
fall•••
followed as -- •fantastic•.
Later on, he
told
his
com
=
anding officer,
•r
kaow
you won't believe
it, but
I
shot down nine planes•.
None of them he
,.
explains needed
a
great deal of shooting.
Japanese
''
-
"
· 1
th
planes, says
MacCampbell,
burn as eas1 Y as
ey
ever
did. And these seemed to burst into flames as
soon as they were hit~
F
E
ET
----
Out in th
e s
ab ttl e area off t~e Philippines
the
r
e'
s a
a
v
y flier "
'
ho looks down adm
?
ingly at his
bi
g
br
og
ue
s
-- r
eg
ul
a
r tugboats they are. And he's
thankin
his st
·
r
s
that his feet· are so
big. He is
nsi
g
n C
a
rl
S
mith of Houston, Texas, who in the recent
g
re
t sea an
J
air eng
a
gements had one of the
most
fant
a
stic adventur
e
s -- his life saved because
of his
big
f
eet.
1f
Flying a carl9ier-
b"ased-bomber, he got
into
·
an air fight, an
his plane was badly shot up.
The
tail hook for
~
aking a landing on the carrier deck
·
as knocked out -- also the radio and the
bomb
release.
He still ha
d
his bomb aboard~ and couldn't get rid
of
it.
O
r, in the words of Engisn Smith, •No book,
no r
ad
io, and a big bomb sticking to me like
a
leech --
~
very emba;rassing1 • ~
~ .
So all he could do
-~as• bail out -- and that
went wrong.
As he jumped, his chute caught on the edge
of
the cockpit, an
d
that was also embarrassine, but he
man
age
t
o k
i
c
k himself cle
a
r. Down he plunged,
b
~
'
pull~the
ri pcordj
nn~wai
ted for the jerk on bis
~
shoulders when
the ,a~chuteA°pen9'. That yanking
came
promptly,
but
in a most astonishing
way.
got
effect
"I
~••8•~
it
a
11
right, " relates
EntJign
S ■ i
th,
"but
it
asn
't
like the book said --
I
was
jerked
ey
my feet?"
An
1
that left him the
most
surprised pilot
in the Pacific -
-
parachuting
down
IIIFtl
saspended
by
his feet. The
Ensign
explains:
"lly
harness had been
yanked off
my
llhoulders, but it was miraculously
caught
around
my
large
brogan ■."
·
H
e
mana ed to reach up and get a grip
on t•e
I
h
t
d
gl.
ve hi·
ms
elf some extra support
parac u e
line,
an
d
In that way he
caae
down
in addition to the foothol •
by
8
destroyer ten
on the
water, and
was picked up
~
d
)A..,o , .
___
minutes later, saved
by
his big
fee'l"
l1l&.C
•
A
;
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I
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