L.T. SUNOCO. ^2iiMIx-£EBRUARY l^J.1242 • GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: At any moment now, you may hear of the fallil of Kharkov. Obviovraiy;..The Nazi rad ioa^a^ preparing -jf? ^ the Ger-aan people ■£ for the had news. Moscow has^:?.«t as yet reported the actual entry of Soviet troops. But, Berlin announced that fresh units of the Bed Army, .! strongly supported by tanks, were attacking the Germans near Kharkov from the north and east. Radio Berlin then acknowledged that the Russians had succeeded in making a few penetrations. ^ n T—- 8.11 o \ all over except the actual ntrJ into that great center of the Ukraine, the tread kst „f European KhSSta. XUitar, ohaerver. in a i;) .ondon expect the Soviet high command to announce the recapture of Kharkov in the late night special c o T.nun ic ue . Moscow the beginning of the ena « a fierce tank battle^on the outskirts of the city.Meanwhile, according to Russian observers the German garrison is evacuating the city by <? v\, r ^ trainlfee^. The Red Army is advancing^in five separate and distinct columns. Coming on top of the fall of Rostov and Voroshilovgrad, as announced last mr it, means that tha thrae .air. bastions of th, southern estre.it, tf the German line ha.e ooll.psed. That backs up th. prophecy of *** military^** that the Germans are A preparing to .ithdra. to th, Dn'aper Piver line, a line „■ ^2 U^e north, all along the line extending from oiga ^ - OWIEfM ,^'and then the great l» of the fiver and Odessa. m m LEAD - 3 An interesting part of the Nazi communiques, is that they are constantly commenting on the strength of theRussian attack and the Russian forces. In other words, the Russians appear to be k getting stronger TP every week. Radio Moscow announced today that a new class of recruits have begun military training. The Soviet High Command says:- "Our reserves are inexhaustible." ^The same feeling is being echoed plaintively by the Nazis. RAIDS The Royal Air Force last night dealt a couple er£ terrific blows at the Axis. One. another raid on Cologne, with those massive block buster bombs, Cologne ^ still suffering ona-d-e-r—tri^e—a-tr4M£u>k -m-a-4~e—tho uo-o /\ . /N r ----- Tii'e—fr t-h 9 irV—b I tj c k b iu4"lj pis —b crt ■ cfl s u irnre frri't -■bi»=e^; 43t» Meanwhile, another R.A.F. formation was in southern Europe smashing at the great City of Milan ar^d I the foremost Italian naval base at SpeOia. Even the Fascist radio at Rome admitted that Milan had suffere damage. A On top of those night raids, the F.A.F. and American Liberator bombers followed up with daylight attacks. The Liberators paid particular attention to Nazi docks and shipping at Dunkirk, the scene of the / famous British retreat at the outset of the war. The Liberal0^A2n^c behind the .^Dunkirk .d^, A* F £ IDS - ? One pilot stayed behind to look enb—t4*e^-4-€rrfte-rf and came A A back reporting the greatest concentration of fires he had ever seen. The glow^could be observed A a hundred and fifty miles away. AFRICA 1 In Africa, our troops have taken the brunt ol n 'A attack by one of Marshal Rommelfs panzer A divisions. The Germans and Italians gained on us from two points in the area west of Faid Pass. United States forces were pushed bach eighteen miles. Rommel's men advanced with tanks, infsntry and motorized artillery. One American unit was caught like a nut between a Nutcracker. How badly it fared A 6 ao s„o., but the official report atja that the Anerican unit suffered a. losses ahd then .ithdre, to avoid beine surrounded TThla^att.ok ,os heavil, iD U w ^ v the account of the fight supported by dive bombers^sai^he aoe5 not mention -hat part our^.iroraft played in thaC. When the show was over, Rommel’s o were in a strong position threatening two columns were in the Ameri can situation at SJboitla, north-eot of IF . x* _.f* Pommel’s attsck wbs to Sidi Bou Bid. The objective of Pommel AFRICA - 2 widen the corridor for the retreat of his Afrika Korpst^!>€> t-hsk-t—make a stronger stand against the British Eighth Army when it catches up with them. fywzn Meanv^hile, American Air in southern Tunisia ha® been trying to keep the Germans penned up in the area along the coast and to hold them until t General Montgomery can strike. Altogether, it was one of those days from which the news is not so Encouraging for our side. WAPSHIPS ^*^side ^ the Russien news, our biggest cause for jubilation^*==s* the sea*. Four warships have been added to the fleets of the United Nations, one of them a big battlewagon. French men-o-v/ar that escaped from Brestjand _ u£%rm ~ the powerful^raodern Richelieu. The others are cruisers, two small and one large. They are under the command of General Giraud, French High Commissioner in Africa* take /ibn part in the^«^9% camoaignei Against the Axis. (/ ^ just arrived in United States waters after being convoyed across the Atlantic from Dakar. IjJl • ^This is ii u ii 1 F t something to cheer about, so much so A / ^ A that the Office of Censorship makes an exception to its rules and siloes us to sentUn Vhst^t^^r^ here The .rest thirty-five thousand Hiche 1 ieu^W^ New York ‘Tiarbor, about to be taken to the Brooklyn A o WAFSIIIPS_- Navy Yard. The big nine thousand ton cruiser MONTCALM is at Philadelphia, being repaired, and outfitted with the latest in modern naval equipment. Two smaller, three thousand two hundred and fifty ton cruisers, the FANTASQUE and the TERRIBLE, are on their way to another port. These are really super destroyers A task force of the United States Navy convoyed these French vessels from Dakar to our Atlantic coast and a United Press correspondent was with the task force. This fighting French squadron is under the command of Vice-Admiral Raymond Fenard, head of the French Neval Mission to the United States, ‘was Admiral Fenard who^released the news s* New York,^ te^^^this raises General Giraud's naval force to A three battleships, three heavy cruisers, six Xipht cruisers, one aircraft carrier, four bit destroyers, five ordinary destroyers, ten to twelve sloops. WARSHIPS - 3 xourteen submarines and a number of accessory.ships. The BICHELIEU is one of the finest fighting ships afloat. She was only commissioned in Nineteen Forty, and carries a complement of one thousand, six hundred and seventy men. She mounts eight 15-inch guns; fifteen 6-inchers; thirty-six anti-aircraft guns, and four aircraft with two catapults. Admiral Fenard, in making the announcement, said all his men were most impatient to get to sea and glad to be fighting on the si^e of the United Nations after more than two years of inaction Much of the refitting of these French ships consists of the mounting of more modern anti-aircraft equipment than was available when they were commissioned. :eporters asked whether the RICHELIEU had not already . considerable storm. That question brought ndergone & con^. i -- + V-ICI a “11 us ion was to an attacx made ■ut a smile, because the allusion „„„ her »y the British -hile she r.s in hsrhor at Bahar. -4- The French Admiral rer 1 i ed, ffY es, but we do not wish to exaggerate.” He added that all of his ships are of the most modern type and constitute an invaluable addition 7T to the force of the United Nations. Admiral Fenard added his conviction that all the French warships in harbor at Toulon were either scuttled or completely crippled when the Nazis grabbed the harbor. SOLOMONS The war in the air over the Pacific is being stepped up. we learned from the Navy' this afternoon. American planes are attacking the Jap c11 the way from the Aleutians to the Solomons\ Adding up today’s and yesterday’s communiques, twenty-three Jap planes were destroyed and fourteen Americana. the American losses heavier than tt A~ ew-#ev^. Four of the enemy aircraft were shot down in the Aleutians, eleven in the Solomons. On the night of February Thirteenth, a formation of Liberator heavy bombers, together with^Mitchell medium bombers, «corted by Lightnings, attacked the Japs at Kiska. They reported damaging hits on the target; and,they shot do»" three out of five Zeros, plus an enemy reconnaissance plane. On February Fourteenth, plane formations SOLOMONS - ? attacked Mund&y on New Georgia Island, 6 F 5 P i afely. At noon, on the <s?us~l fire*anii all planes return V K same day, another American force landed three bomb hits on a large cargo ship in the waters around Shortland Island. Some twenty-five or thirty enemy planes arose to intercept the attack and eleven of them were shot down. But two^United State^ bombers and six fighters failed to return. The Navy also tells us that within the j-ast four weeks of fighting on Guadalcanal, eighteen Japanese were killed for every single American. BURMA , i, 'cniti \,h"e news coming A v*£L*^ -ie , there h -«-0 —n-^twhee-n., -s-e- -d.vom^-tic—o^f^-Jr-crkcVi Nevertheless, /V ’ hat is ^o infr on irn—rrr^.e^ is of ^kr^tne-ft-tl-e-u* A- A ^rtrirffre-^ importance. The tirexe^rd now hi) £«~\-o on the defensive, t-he —kirhire?*^.v-e-ry —auoh-o-f^-err^d-v^* A W^-Q-pf kg—9u» a i d1^ for a while had the elements fighting for them. Monsoon rains tore out the roads the Japanese were using, flooded their river supply lines and isolated their garrisons. The Japanese A- to withdraw their outposts to the valleys. Meanwhile, the British and Americans under ■6ir Archibald Vfavell were gaining strength. One factor to encouraie us, is that the British and American pilots MA C,r^N now are^tfrD-b^fejmr^ the air. Heavy bombers of the i / s' cz/y' Stat»» Tenth Air Force ranged far afield, A ' bomb inf as far away as Bangkok,, where the Japs have N —etri • imv>o:rt^4 supply base. Not only all Burma, but most of Thailand, is now open to attack from American aircraft. u. , Unit-e Over the weekend, Unittrd 31atco* pilots : ft* f # a 11 four Japanese base s^w44.h - b u mb and ^fre-T^kRKBxnH&siiRKj^ Reconnaissance planes with cameras confirmed the fact that ten or twelve Jap barracks had been destroyed by f ire ^-€Hther ^e-i-nto, the * * 4-- * C <v * * r.- • L)b l irtruff1 concentrations of raixvay roiling stock. In all these operations, not a single American planelt'ahl^st. The Royal Air Force joined in the fun and blazed away at all Japanese positions north of Akyab, the strong port on the Bay of Bengal, which is the first objective of the Allies in-Burma. ______ __________ —------------------------------------------- It is i almost a year since the Japs closed the Burma Road to China, but today the Chinese are receiving more Lend-Lease goods from us than they did BURMA - ? when that road was open. The4 was announced today in a special Lend-Lease report made by the China branch of Lend-Lease Admin i strat ion. \Th^ report pointed ^ \ up the promise made by President Roosevelt last Friday | that the war would be carried to Japan, in the skies over China and in the skies over Japan. New airfields have been built in both India and China, ana the number of transport planes carrying goods in that ferry service has been greatly increased SUPREME COURT ■ The Supreme Court of the United States convened today with a full membership of nine Justices. There was a brief ceremony in which V/iley Rutledge too g his oath as Associate Justice to succeed former Justice Byrnes, who retired to become Director of Economic Stabilization. When the short ceremony was over, the court announced several interesting decisions. One of th^se, i I in favor of the boss of the Musicians Union, James Petrillo. The Department of Justice prosecuted him for violating the Sherman Act because he forbade musicians to make records for radios or juke boxes. The Supreme Cour^f orbids the prosecution. Another interesting decision was in the case of Kllli.* Pelle5’ U'e f°U"der Silver Shirts, ccvicted of sedition. He appealed, but the high bench rules against him, says his SUPRFMJLCOUBT - 2 conviction was ail right, and he must serve his fifteen year sentence. The high court also decided against Louis Lepke Buchalter, whom Governor Dewey of New York, when he was District Attorney, described as the most dangerousj public enemy in the United States. Buchalter and two colleagues were convicted of murder. They appealed, and the Suoreme Court turned them down. Their only hope now is to be pardoned by Governor Dewey! FISHING crv^t vy^o^~~L^ Here is ai* interesting aftermath to the rescue of Captain Eddie Eickenhacker and his mates. You have probably read how they were en± 3 f kept alive while they v/ere afloat^twenty-one days •p > »■ ^4 by the occasional fish they caught. The Navy is taking advantare of that lesson. There is to be a compact fishing kit on every lifeboat^of Uncle Sam’s Navy and merchant marine^B-h-lp-s—o-f—-bhpee—tho-u&a-n4—ton-s- o^" ( ft^r^'Lighter fishing kits will be hxkx part of the standard equipment of all life rafts carried by a irplane s (7V\ * W £w L-'f o2 7 £:k~^A 5 ON WELL__-_TEMPLE_U DIVERSITY In Philadelphia, at Temple University and elsewhere, they are celebrating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the birth of Russell Conwell, the man who broke all records with his lecture, Acres of Diamonds. Russell Conwell’s central idea, you will recall, was that you donH have to go thousands of miles away to find opportunity, for your acre of diamonds is probably in your own back yard. There are many Americans, right now, in the present war emergency, who are proving this on a gigantic scale. For instance, until recently all of our rubber came from British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. Nov, we are making it here at nome, and it is unlikely that we’ll ever have to go to the ^ast Indies for \