J )" ~ l I ! "' I r 11 f Y: I tin toni pt t f 0 tn Gr - . n d t 1 ·• t, rf '- i t i/j/ in Yo rk, .f' r a er o r . t r n c1 n , u t - Fren ch n , merican. The ' cc i n · · t h e n u r n Fiftieth Anniversar~ 0 d i C 2K on f th most~ mous educati ) n 11 l n ti uti · ns jn th " o r l : The • cole P -J ~ , t e c c 1 n 1· • . e _ o f · r 1· s . N o o n 1 y t e e H u 1 r d ., ., n . e a i f ti th ut also th e Twenty-Fifth Annivers a ry of t ~e e xch .;.n JU~ c d ets e · . 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Patton's rtillery has begun shelling~ from /\ ~ a distance of/\ ■ ore th&~ thirteen miles. ~ ~ ~ ....... -----..--. ........... Practically the entire American front is blazing. The Germans are fighting desperately, especial ~ w . d . . ~ ~ - ~ ~ in the Saar. But Uncle Sam's divtsions are pushing the . \ back slowly but surely. _ The Seventh Army has taken ~ Haguenau, the hin e between the Siegfried Line and the old French M inot Line. General Patch's men broke in at seven o'clock this mornin, after fighting in the suburbs of the towh for the whole week. Tonight they are eight il beyord Haguenau. Then, lookin g north, we fin the First Army drivin g the fl zis back on Colone, on a ten mile front . .., G n r 1 H o ge!' QOY g hbeye h a ve t k en . erken, t enty-one mil e s west f Colone. It is worth remembering th t after a ll these months of fighting, the takin of Merken means th a t we are just seventeen miles inside of German territory Qet tbat poiab. General Eisenhower broadcast another message to the people of Germany. He warned them that the Allied armies are eventually bound to overwhelm the Nazi Reich. . hen that happens, Eisenhower said, the German eo le will be living under a military administration. They will be demobilized and forbidden to join any organizat•ons of a military character. Every attempt to preserve German militarism will be severely punished by the Allied military ~overnment. A sl irn youn g fellow s tood in front of his Gene al t orlay and looked as t hotg h he were about to faint. Be galped nervously, kept his eyes on the ground as though he ri. shed it would open up and swallow him. You · igh.t have supposed the General was about to pronounce a sentence upon hi~. Actually, the timid young fellow was First Lieutenant Walter Ehlers of Manhattan, Kansas, who, single-handed, had killed e lghteen Germans. On June Ninth, as a staff sergeant, he led an assault squad against heavy enemy fire. era-ling his men to take an advance position. Then the Kansas sergeant went ahead all alone with the Germans concentrating heavy fire on him. Be killed eighteen of them and enabled . his own squad to knooft.. out two of the Nazi mortar positions. On the following day a sniper shot lergeant Ehl~rs in the back. Nevertheless, he went ahead, rescuing a wounded comrade.Even then he refused to go to the ~•,i hos p ital,and returned to the lines after given first aid. HERO - 2 ________ ...., ____ The next thing that happened to him, they made him a Fir s t Lieut e nant, on the battlefield; and Lieutenant - General John C. 8. Lee, also f ro11 Iana as, commanding the coamunications zone of the European theatre, has now presented him with the Congressional Medal of Honor, and his first rest from fighting since D-Day. They've also rewarded him with a thirty-day furlough -- a trip boae to [ansas. BABY --- In a small town on the Saar River. a French citizen approached an Anerican military policeJan, and implored help of some kind or other. The M.P., Private Luther Savage of Sher an,Texas, ■ x could understand no French. And what he h·mself wanted r~ht then was a foxhole,to get out of the rain of ene ■y shells. But he yielied to the pleas of the French civilian, who led him into a cellar. There, lying on a pile of straw, was the Fr•chman' s wife, about to have a baby. Pr iv ate Savage took one look and decided it was no place for hia. Rushing out into the street, he dodged sbells until he found an American medical officer. Without any anesthetic, the ■idical officer helped a beautiful baby girl into the world, while the . Texas U.P. held a flashlight -- to the exploding of Ger ■an shells. !!:GAUL I!: -------- Not o nly the Fl' nc ople but. t he British ar e :naAing re y to iVL a w a rm welcome to General DeGaulle ho i n hi w a y back to Paris. On both sides of the Atlantic the treaty of alliance that he negot i t ed with Soviet Russia as been re orted with ert usiasm. he~ • • Lo don Times decl~res thR the new Franco-~ussian treaty will have as warm a welcome in Britain as in France and Ru a sia. The e• York Tim~s - this mornin 6 said it repre s ented a new personal triumph fo r DeGaulle himself and a new triumph for F~ance . AI W I . ------ The air no few r th a n war on Germany was resumed today with I:::; thousand, ~,•·••·••I-•i of Oncl Sem's 9"R" planes in he a ir over the n th o usand, six hundred were big bombers, llying F o rtresses and Liber a tors, the greatest single bomber force ever em loyed in history. The bi g gest -~- concentra ion as over Frankfurt-a ■ rlia•-Yain and A nearby railway centers. One airaada was based on Britain, another on Italy. The latter attacked targets in Austria. All in all, they hit Germany with six ~ thousand tons of bombs, ..._thous a n d ~ ! RUSSIA ___ _....._ Toni g ht, Bu d apest in fl a mes. With the Na z is gett . ~g out as fast as they can; un d er a rain and snells from Soviet guns. The word is that the Ge ~ a~ r ~ themselve s have set fire to the Hun g arian ce ~t a ~ to prote And tbe7 have left behi n d a suicide rear guard ,~treat the~~•*z ■ Yof the main bod7 of the garrison, which is toward Auatm through a corridor only as much chaos s possible. One Soviet army is seven If what we bear is correct, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, in fact in the world, is being deatroyed. Also, once one of the gajest. The Gen■ ans are reported to be taking away, as usual, everything portable, including machinery -- and the sold reserve of the Hungarian government. The Hungarian crown jewels are likewise bein g m oved into Naziland. --o-- R0SSIA Tonight, Bu apest in flames. With the Nazis getting out as fast as they can; under a rain of boabs and shells from Sovi€t guns. The word is that the Germans themselves have set fire to the Bun arian And they have left behind a suicide rear guard ;~treat to prote the~z ■ sz ■ tof the main body of the garrison, which is toward Auatm through a corridor only as much chaos s possible. One Soviet army is seven If what we hear is correct, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, in fact in the orld, is being deatroyed. Also, once one of the gajest. The Genaans are reported to be taking away, as usual, everything portable, including machiner,- -- and the aold reserve of the Hungarian government. The Hungarian crown jewels are likewise being moved into Naziland. --o-- A report from Berlin b rings word that the Ru s sian ■ are about to resume their drive in Poland. They have concentrated a huge army on the west bank of the Vistula, some four-hundred-thousand men, with three-thousand,-three-hundred pl a nes and more than five hundred guns. Evidently, they are all set for a winter offensive aimed at Irakow and the German factory towns of ~ilesia. LABOR ------ A Labor le a de in ~on on tod L y described Prime Minis r ins on hurchill a 1 ant romantic r licJ of British ~i hteenth Century imperialism. Some h o us r n a peo p le lau e hed an d cheered hen they heard this. The remark came from Harold J. Laski, presiding over the Forty-Third Annual Conference of the British Labor Party. Cabinet wer, sitt I ;l they AUV oz This Labor conference is an affair of great poli ic 1 importance, because a general election is due in Britain soon after the defeat of Germany. ' a. the Left ~ing of the Party, led by Professor Laski ? 4 ~ . ~ its best to coax A r:~..f:_p l:v tried to persu a de the convention to vote a g ainst A havin e another coalition o vern m ent ik in conceyrt. wi h LABOR ---~ A Labor lender in London tod a y described Prime Mini r ' ins on C hurchill as a g 1 ant romantic r licJ of British F i hteenth Century imperi a lism. ome h us n d people lau g hed a n d cheered when they heard this. The rem ark came from Harold J. Laski, presiding over the Forty-Third Annual Conference of the British Lab o r Party. Cabinet •er.., s i tt I u L t 1,ay Au 1 et- ba t,t,ed au uy •. This Labor conference is an affair of great poli ical importance, bec a use a general election is due in Britain soon after the defeat of Germany. b Tue Left Wing of the Party, ~~ ~ its best to coax the La bor A. ' led by Professor Laski -be tf.r; L delegatesAt=ia::.::·~~~ r:~~ li:e tried to persuade the convention to vote a ga inst A havin e another co a lition eo ve rnme nt ik in conceyt wi h LI . BOR - " ----- the Tories after the w a r. But all motions in that direction were defe ted, which indic R tes that the Rig t ing still is in control of the British Labor P~rty. Aad ~ne Leber leader showed h~aeelf de&d egai-fta~ aa,- a.pyn·oee"- to \l&~tiy with -€011waaist s , or "it.h t.he• JAPAN ----- Ove in th ~ar E ~t, the u µ rf rts of the ~ Tw niieth Air F o rce,Acontinued their bomb ~ rdment of Japa for five straight d&ys. A p parently, the Twentieth Air Fo ce is usin new tactics. Inste d of mass bombardme by a large formation, they are sending the great B-29s over in groups of two, even singly. Evidently the ide is to give the Japanese no rest. Also, these missions have had a do ble purpose, reconnaissance combined wit bombing. Starting from the Marianas, they have visited Tokyo, western Japan, Korea and Manchuria. They dropped both explosive and incendiary bombs, with the incendiaries particularly on Tokyo and the other big industrial cities of Japan. Two of the bombers that attacked the Mikado's capital 1eft fires burning that could be seen for ei hty-tb,·w miles. The Japanes e today admitted that since the be innin of thew r, they have lost s venty-three JAPAN - 2 ___ __. __ _ a mir A ls, six of them q uite recently. Since ay Ten y-Third, ei ht en of their generals have been killed. On of the mirals who died last July was Ne umo, comm nder-in-chief of the task fore that led the attack on Pearl Harbor. • -- P! ILIP I • ~ ----------- On Leyte t , e Y a n s of the eventy- eventh ivision tav wipe out the entire ga~rison ~t Ormoc. General acArtbur's hea quarters r por~J th a t this happened after fightin of the most debperate character The resistance oft e jJa Japs had become much ~o re ferocious. Butt .e eventy-Seventh, veterans of the capture of Guam, took Ormoc by storm, and joined up wit the battle weary Seventh. MacArthur does not tel us how any Japs they his men killed except that iaaxa were many thousands strong. And, the destructi o n of that Jap garrison wipes out t h e entire southern segment of Yamasita's defense line. I -, Britis Admir a l 1r Bruce Frae e r rrived at ~elbo rne tod y bringin news of t , e great fleet he il. com~an int e w ~ r o n Japan, battleships, aircra · t carriers, cruisers, de6troyers and many other . vessels. In fact, there il be alto et er two British fleets, and among them will oe some of the newest and proude t of Britannia's men-'o-war. Sir Bruce Fraser imself , ill fly his flag on the great battleship BOE, a forty-thousand tonner, completed in lineteen Forty-two, one of the most pow rful battlewagons afloat. Ad iral Fraser will s erve under either Nimitz or General 1 cArthur as the necessity arises. ti' ... ----- There uick act·on d y u on the order of Mobiliz ion i~ ctor J ~ n e s , the work-or-fight ord r. Gener 1 Her hey told all the draft boards to cancel the deferrm~nts of all men bet een eighteen and thirty-seven, ~ho h;ve left jobs in warp a n t s . ~ . Hershey repeated the known fact that there is a mt critical shorta e in war activities. And there is also a continuing urgent need for combat replacements in all theatres of war. Officials of the War Production Board are going to ask non-essent·a1 employers to lend help to war industrie for ninety days. That means, owners of stores, bans and other similar civilian concerns. C I E ----- After every bi war th re is a crime wave, and d _ : . ~ the F.R.I. tells u~bat tblw is beginn · ng.•lreedr; J. Edgar Hoover reports that kidnapping$are on the OM/ ~ Iidnappings had ceased entirely. ~~Hoover said further that bank robberies are being re orted. A number of these ape ~ein~ eo ■■ i+A.-N- by discharged veterans. Rut, he--~ddea, they ere- .I veterans who had criminal tendencies before they entered the armed servic~a. · To meet this growing situation, he is bringing groups of his agents in the field back to headquarters in eshington for fresh training. "YO ING ___ .,. ______ _ ome e tern con r men say it i time the ove r n ent uit e s t·blishin new n a tional parks in Wyomin g . Alre a~ y Uncle Sam owns thirty-two million acres of the •Equality" state. Be also o~ns the minera rights on eighteen million dres more. On top of that, the President proposes to take two hundred and twenty- one thousand additional acres and call them the Jackson Hole Rational onument. Representative Frank B&rrett of Wyoming says that if this oes on, his state will have room for nothin but elks, and •ba~ is&• not m••• the two-legged kind either. T he two hundred and twenty-one thousand acres for the Jackson Hole Monume&t consist mostly of sage brush flats, Barrett said. There is only one buildin on t hose cres, and that b- a lo g c a bin where Jesse James once hid from the sheriff's p osse. S a ys Ba~ett: n I ou l d have p & r s 11 ov r the west if YOiJING - 2 -------- ... - we attem ted t m ke a monument wherever some horse thief ~~cu ht." ~ Representative hite of Idali~•Y~ seventy-two ~ per cent o f ~ state is;(under government ownership. Remember Nubbins, the little fellow out in Wyoming who bad his Christmas on November Nineteenth? rather, Or ,•* ■ Z\ at a hospital in Denver. where the doctors didn:t think he'd live until Christmas. So they put it ahead six weeks for six - year-old Nubbins. Well, there is good news. A Denver surgeon operated. Be took a big ia■b1e, and the operation bas turned out a success. lubbins is getting along fine, and the word today was that he ■ ay see many, man7 · Christmases. BITLE R --- Here is the latest on Hitler -- from a S iss newspaper • . According to this yarn, Der Fuehrer is insane, but claeery about . it. That he believes the war is over and is no . busy on reconstrmtion lans. According to an anony•ous Nazi official visiting in Switzerland, the Nazi govern ent 'has assigned a large engineering staff to work •it h Hitler at Berchtesgaden on reconstruction plans. And, as we have heard before. every day a special edition of his own newspaper is printed without •ar new• -- just one copy for him -- for the now balmy FueLrer. ~ .. ~ ~ ~ ~ . ~~c. The azis and the Japanese will never ive in. So said their two Foreign in Ger m ny announced that will keep up the fight even though it of their best and bravest. In Tokyo, Shigemitsu, __.,~:J iuclate,t there ia no doub will turn in their favor, and not an that Hitler and Mussolini will save Both Ribbentrop and Shigemitsu announced their complete conviction that the t ide will turn in their favor. And then the Tri-Partite Pact will become one of the pilla s of the new wo~ld order. _ __..___.-.-............... ~ TR INS -------- The Office of Defense Transport tion repeats the warnin about holiday trevel. That applies part·c 1 rly to peo le ho hav their eyes on a winter vecation in Florida. For them the only advice is -- don't. You may b able to get there, but your chances ..So ~-t£_,,_ o.~,T. of getting back re exceed in ly slim. A Last February and March, many. pe c , plw found themselves stran4.ed in Florida for weeks. GRE E ------ In Greece, the situation is no better. There is a virtual state of war between the British and the Elas. The British gover~ment has been obliged to send reinforcements to Athens, which are now under way. The ancien . capital has been comparatively quiet all day, but there are fifteen thousan Elas, well equipped and well organized fighters, opposed to the Popendreou government in the city and the outskirts. The northern part of the country is controlled by the Elas.