t IID°NTR . L --------- Toni ht the streets of Montre a l are patrolled by the oyal Ca nadian ounted Police - together with the p rovinci al o ic e of uebec. This follows a strange and pa~adoxical d ay in Can da's largest city. There were fire alarms in ontreal, but nothing hap ened. No firemen or fire engines appeared . There were c 11s for police, but these went likewise unanswered. Nor were there any cops on the beat. The familiar patrolman on his round was missing. And every one of Montreal's million and a quarter people knows the city's water supply was jeopardized. All because of a strike - a walkout of municipal employees. ~ T h e issue at sta e-. the familiar one of A union recognition, an attem p t to compel the city to recognize the Can a dian Congress of Labor Unions. n d forty- ive hund r ed city employees waled out - with the stri k in police a n d fire de ar tment most promin nt in the headlines~he city ap ealed to the provincial o vernment ,fQuebec an d to the Royal Canadian ounted police to assume the jurisdiction of aw an order. The lea was granted, and tonight the people of Montreal are noticing those familiar ~-~ red coats and ~~c~so~hats of the Mounties instead of the usual uniforms of the cops. 0 ~ :,~~~ ~ - - - e ~ ~ ~ - ~ ~ - t o -1:4 -- ~ - EDE ---- In the n o rmal course f thins, e wou - d have had a major declar a tion by British Prime Minister inston Churchill today - he presenting to the House of Commons an account of the great conferences at Teheran and Cairo. Churchill, however, has still not returned to Britain, and hi• place was t~ken by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden - who told the Commons that the Prime Minister was detained by import P. nt duties. 'Ht.ea, p,arbapa, ere s~•iee eeaaeotea with ~he eonfereneei:, . aaa Ghttrchill likely eaettgh ■ a, still ee ia •••· Eden is no Churchill,• when it comes to phraseology and important disclosures, but he did · provide some interesting.discussion on an l es of the EDEN - 2 --- Eden was enumer a ting and discussing the war in Italy. tl e admitted that the advance of the Fifth and Eighth Armies has been slow and not at all spectacular during the past several months, and explained: •The truth is that we now have reached what is the narrowest part of the Italian peninsula. The , Appenines stretch almost froa coast to coast. And, where they are not, swollen rivers take over." And he spoke of what he called - "heavy persistent rain, which swells every river and makes everywhere a sea of mud." EDE - 3 -- ~ ~ Eden went on to tell of (6\. huge bombar d ment th4 B r i t i s h ~ hurled a t the Nazis, a deluge of shells followed by a p o erful rive, and large success seemed at h a nds. ftThen, s a id Eden, ftdown came th how th iisk ma . in om r a in a ain~fl And he roceeded to tell i hth Arm stru led in eel e an mud, c vnnces, but n ays im p ded by the r a in. ITALY FOLLO E D E N ----------------- The latest d ispatches from t h e battle front in Italy are along the line of the picture painted by Foreign Secretary Eden earlier in the day. 'OW- · 8:rliA I◄~ Yontgome ry' s b a I t lu t111utt, troops of the Ei htb Army are pushing on through driving rain and bitter cold--making slow progress. The specific mentioned in the communique are Canadian and They are engaged inYafoonverging movement-- the soldiers from the Dom · nion and from legendary B i n ~ : ~ ~ ~ ~ t ~ O r t o n ~ i ~ " t l , ~ "' a anchor ■ i a ■ w the Adri at • ic.lca i.e Ui,e-...rie• Hzre,. /\ London has wo d that Lieutenant General Patton, Commander of the United States Seventh Army, is in the Middle East. And that r a ises suppositions th t lans may be afoot for an invasion of the Balkans. The Nazis are jittery there - afraid of an Allied drive. And the aatellite governments, like Bulgaria, are shaking in their shoes. Tje Germana continue to hurl fierce attacks against the Jugoslav Partisans, presumably in an attempt to clear out guerrilla resistance before invasion of the Balkans can be In his ad ress to the Commons o y e British Foreign Secretary took up the ticklis m~ ter of Jugoslav:a, the bitter stnife between the Partisans under Marshal Tito and the C etniks of General Mikhailovich and King Peter. Be stated that the British have sent a ■ ilitary mission to the headauatr- ters of Tito ~nd so hao Soviet Ru~s~s~i~a~·:.---------~J The latest alon g this line is a dispatch from London which states that young Peter of Jugosl via C( aay t r y ~ task of personal mediation between his I\ government in exile and the regime of Marshal Tito. le are told that Tito's provisional government, whil rather Communistic in color, is not hostile to the aonarchy. H"\nce King P e t ~ e can do something to hel a reconciliation, and the repo~t is that he will try to arrange a personal interview with Tito. The ovi et c aptu r e of Cher k assy is to some extent ~ balan e~by the loss of a place further north. The Russians 11i1y SOM forced to abandon the town of ~~~( Radomisl under the fierce·pressure of a German counter-offensive. Thia is the same powerful counter- with thrust saat with massed infantry and tanks i ■ which the A A la1i war machine ha s made repeated gains for weeks - in the sector before [ie~. And the town of Radomisl is '"Rv,.,:-~ the fourth important point th~ have had to give up. But this set-back only partly counter-balances the capture of Cherkassy by the Russians, which is of major importance. That place is an important road center, and its fall, says Moscow, makes it virtually certain that the whole German front bulging eastward in the Dnieper bend, will collapse. A I IC ------------ The ne from the outh e t rn °acific tells of one o~ th bi e air rids ever launched a ainst the Ja s in tho arts, an aerial blow second only to ~assa t a ainst Rabaul in October. That former time, three hundred and fifty tons of bombs hit the Jape, while the raid described today wa a t o hundred and forty-ei ht ton affair. target as Gasmata, big Jap base n the southern coast of New Britain Island. dama e s reported - ra ing fires and thunderous explosions. the i d I suppose many of us have wondered - ht kind of useful and ractical military duty c a n thee~ dos of war really pe orm? An answer comes today from an o ficial Marine Corps re p ort z•&itl•gxla ■ citing the First Dog Platoon for heroism. Those ar e Corps canines are the real devil l.E.!!f ormed J dos, and the~,••t•»~their deeds of valor in the bitter fighting on Bougainville. OGS - 2 _. - '-' There 9111:t,t• shepherd dog heron med Caesar, and he di tinguished him elf on he sw1y first d&y of fightin at Bou ainville. j Company got so far ahead •is that the Jaus cut its communic tions. That is, all communic tion - exce t Caesar. The dog made his way back and forth from! Company to headquarters, carrying mess ges and mas. The Japs were shooting at the messenger dog, but Caesar brawed the bullets until the third day~ when he fell dangerously wounded. The four-legged marine w~s ta~en on a stretcher to the -t:flof,,A~ he were ~•••iaai=••• - - _ _p,,_ ,.;,;tf, ;:t4, evacua ted-;.til.8 :a a 1 , l hospital as carefully as if ~ J ) J ~ n d w s subsequently dis ab 1 e d he r o e,s • 7 o t t o a .. r t o ife. DOGS • J --- And so did Rex.- /Je was standing on gu rd iaiag during the eighth night of the fi hting on the island. Rex has those sensitive canine ears, and he picked up some stran , e noises - quite inaudible to his human Rex has a ood loud bark, and gave the stiff military words of the official ' . report, •depr•Yed the enemy of the element of surprise when they attacked.• r R . 0 S _____ ... There is al ys something fascin tin g a bout the •Now-It-Can-Be-Told• kind of revelation. S o let's look at a few thins we !..t!.~ permitted to disclose, under the new and liberalized rules issued by the Office of --Mritl" Censorship - A number of restrictions taken off. One of the rules that bas been lifted concerns rumors - w~ich permits us to pass along a few wild and wooly reports that had previously been forbidden. The rumor fact-ory was particularly busy ' on the Pacific coast right after Pearl Harbor, grinding out canards and whoppers - the publication of which . might have caused public paniJrFor example, one alarmin g tale told of a b1g Japanese aircraft-carrier right off California, re ad y to launch its p lanes against San Fr a ncisco or Los Angeles. This carrier, howev e r, was sunk by the Navy. tt ::w:a« G. 11 a my th\ - :ikax there never wa.s o. ny s uc};l airc r aft c a rrier o p s ~QQ &t' 9-ii I I k J I ,ti, ' " ~ 2 ~~~~~- A still t a ller t a l e wa s recited as follows: •The Army sent out five hundred bomber B , interce p ted a Japanes e inva ion fo r ce four hundred miles off the Golden Gate, and sank everyon e of the ships. But,• the rumor went on, "the army won't announce it, because we want the Japs to be p uzzled at what became ~ · • their flee • • T ~ _,,4,,,CJ ~ ' Then there w this one, which certainly might have c a used a scare if its publication had been ''-rt.k permitted: ,AThe Japs ha4 secret airfields in the ~ desert of lev a da; .am. a mystery force of enemy planes tl flew in from the Pacific an d l anded ther8JM~lf!llf:WM- t!}-~... . ' ~hey were all set to b l ast the cities on the coat - the Jap idea b eing that the C lifornia aircraft defenses wou l d be t ak en by sur p rise bec a use they wou l dn't expect Ja p anes e plane s f rom th a t directio n , n o t fl yin r m in l nd." RU OR . 3 ,... _ _, __ .._._ ... The p r ttiest lind moat decorative of all the ~~ ~ w-uv-Bl~11 - - ~~g~ave an exP0nation of a "p . ractice"anti-aircraft barra eat Los £n eles. •Japanese panes came over,• it was whispered, •and dro p ped ·a lot of Japanese l anterns. That's what the uns were firing at.• It rather stuns one to think bow an1 imagination could concoct that one - the Mikado's planes dr~pping gayly glimmering Japanese lanterns on \. ..P _J\ _/)_-. ~ . ... . ~ ~ ~ Los Angeles. ~ - ~ ~ V SOUTH A . CA ------------- An answ r w s m de ton ight to the charges issued by S n ato r But er of Nebraska} ~ • t n i b 8 1 \ after a tri t o t e southern re p ub ~ ics, declared that this country is enga ed in six billion boondoggling ope r ti on in Lat in -Am er i ca. 'Pile 8 Ea at-er -el-a II e-d---ewa, a~ .a,ui iaeietJea that, t:fte Hole Uling we.a en- e+,•e• P '-=- t,e , rre Li ft . . . • ~ • T ~ • A • 111 ...n A -- _..v ~~•••.10 ~ a_.1a ■ eNee.a «.T .... ~ ~ The a n s w e ~ k . ~ wima by Secretary of /\ State Cordell Bull, ho employs his usual vigorous verbia e. "It is distressing," sa14 the Secretary, "th a t, at~ time when the nation is en ga ed in gigantic efforts to defe a t the assassins of civilization, 1ii.J-. ~ - " 3 ~ whol l y )\'a r~ll=lri~ attack should be l evelle d at a po li cy so univers all y acclaimed." The ecretary referred ith appr o v al to the S TH MERI - ------------- figures iven by Sen tor McKellar of Tennessee, who stated· that in the ast three years, the money e spent in ~outh America · amounts not to six billion dol ars but to a mere three ,1undred and twenty-four ail lion. And r.tcKriln hinked _.,~---4M B"t!t.ler= ;aa119aa. ware p elitieal eaa ~ePe ai ■ ea ia iaa aireetiea a6 aeat. Today Secretary Hull contended that the cash we have put into Latin-America is money well spent. He pointed out the way we use Brazilian airports for ferrying bo~bers across t e ocean - a thing thht was particuiarly important when Rommel's Afrika Iorps \ was hammering at the gates of Egypt. And the Secretary goes on to list a whole series of wartime benefits that we have derived from the southern repub~ics, in wh ich eh ve p nt the mone. attem t to arrive at a compromise in the subsidy program bro ke ~-·~~ down,AGA:;;;ic:::tl e lew-eT--iouee Seagreea ha8-¾c> 1 a,~ Io •atlo.w tbe- pa;Yaeai e.:i e.-aeidio2 t ... Administration wants subsidies in the most determined way, and the Senat£.. made a try for a middle-of-the-road A agreement by appointin a sub-committee to ork out a -4--co,'"VZJ., ~fG.t- COD\promise. "5AToni ht the sub-committe~~xotu up-i1t ~ - - - Tile •1aalt=-1'-etil.u• "',i. Qn d the la test is a statement by Demo era tic leader Senator - Barkley of Kentucky. "The whole issue," says he, "will have t,O be thrashed out on the Senate floor." ft n~ th t means a knockdown and dra -out battle ranging a ound the Whit House plea for subsidies aid to food p ro ucers as a way for !.eep ing down the cost of livin n inf ation. FLO -- The flu p idemic is still spreading, but w e are given th ho p e th a t it ill soon decline. The healt commissioner o f Detroit tells us that about ten per cent of the population of the country ha been hit. lasbingon report6 a hundred thousand cases of the mild form of influenza that is prevalent, and we hear that twenty per cent of the members of Congress have it. of motion p ictures at Hollywob~ has been disrupted - because of the man~~¼~■,,--. directors technicians who are laid up at dome or in hos itals. ~ optimistic side of the matter was expressed today by Dr. James G. Cumming, he a d of the Government Bureau of Pr ev e nt a b l e DiseaS'e~• He s a i d there YIOUld and probably be an i ncre a se of the f lu • for a fe ' a-/ day s,that A ~it~ t he crises of thee ijemic , ou l b e re ched i n a FLU - 2 - short time, and would then be followed by a quick decline. (Anot CBO O L JP"1 1 ---------- 'i a r t n c · a of t h , h oism of ol d iers n s ilors , fi ter c'.. C l O E a n e rial g unner .. So there ha ly s em ime in n e s account to tell o ut - th sch oolmarm. Th t 1 y so sta chy d · , a n rim, Yet to 1 h t at Gilmor e Ci ty, Iowa, there is grief and homa e or the he r oism of the p rinci pal of t he loc a l schoo l , Mrs. E lm e r Edgi nton, w ho for twenty years tau g ht t he chi ldren of the to w n. T od a y there wa s at Gilmore City, an ' in a bu' ld in as wrapped in / ~ a flas h ~ fire in the school /\ . ' f . "'h t t· th terr 1. y 1n 7'. s or 1me e f lam es - ith the firemen h n ic app ed by weathe'ttten below zero. f!:-p.e A pupils al l ot out s afely - everybody was cert a in about as th a , aJul the l ast of the : children str eam ed through the " d oors. T ha t is, ev ery bo dy was sur e exc t the school marm. ' he was af r a i d th a t a child m i g ht s till be l ef t C OOL - ? ----------- in th bu n1n bui l ' in , an h tu n d , n 1 n t bac " J 1Y~ B ~ ± e---- a 01:-b-:e r:-.Ar 111~ 8 e, - just to be ur . h never emer e • 8:il:W'\?e ri · d in the ... 1 m . s - t:ti. v icti m of her oyalt to her school teacher's uty. Th irony i that a 1 the childr n rally had out, not on mis ing - only th schoolmarm. I. ----- Co t iJ l·oce ,.. < ,,c r i n , lino n u to ex- ive r C O'Jl on no h, but it '4. odd to h e r of an luJOn cou rt-mart i . et th at is h t is bein he d at s n rancisco. h re a Uni te d s ates Army c a t, in l bein trie d for c o uct unb ecomin to an of i cer. Te unb ecomin part of it is the non-payment of alimony. Captain Lindsey C . Howard is of a ilded social family. His father as prominent in th orld of the turf. n the son is associated 1ith Bin Crosby in a racin st be. He was d ivorced some hile o, a n d ~ remarried - his s e c ond bride bein a movie star et, Jud ith Barr tt. The al imony a 1 ded to ife umb r On e j w at the r t e of tr lve hundred an d fifty d ollars a mo th . An f ~ i l ure top y this h - run the arre rs u to th'rty thous n ~ . dollar . This th ex- if em n a u n d the 1 ony ~~~ h&o r ~ u : te in ~ co urt-ma rt ia on th t r ad it i o n a ch a r e o " c o ' u c t un b e c om in , to an officer ." The accu e d Chptain c o ntend t h a t he does no t o e the mo ney• bec a us his x-~i fe is r all y remarrie d - with a s ee r t weddi n 1 n e xico . Th a t he is try in to pr o v e b e f o re the m · i i t a r y c o u rt .