I I 1 1 /Cf</-,~ . ~ I • ;,.. lv ·. r ot' , 4 . :n on told u · a · c r u r' fo r e .. r h vin a h 'i ~ t o . t. Isl · n • . The J a p r 1 on r a lli d, bro ~ ht our n to a t a n - ill an r opp them from c pturin lhe o r a iJt 8 ut t, rn t t McArthur has been b le to land r int ore m nt at B ia.ic. They went ash om witbo t any opposition ro r t e Jc1ps, par~ly becauee our Billy it 11 and B o · ton bomb · rs ere eeping the enemy to o busy. Th r ar tvo oth6r a·r fields on Biak besides okmer. Jap snipers and artillery &potters av pr vent d the occupati o n of those reinforcements are air dro es. But now th t theAr ■ fiazxzaiaf ■ zacaata which there,Ai\ probably include tans, the end of t hat fi ht may n o t be f a r off. The hi n e h ve ev ac u a t ed Ch a n sha, and the J aps will h v it in fe w hours, maybe are even inside the city hree times the nrrison has ithstood a siege, but was unequal to a fourth. I•• At latest re p orts a rge J apa nese co umn advancing down the railroad from Ban kow to Canton w as less than thirty miles from Changsha. The Japs have also landed men on the southeast shore of Tungting Lake. Four Jap colu ■ ns are advancing through the pro• nee of Hunan. At the same time, General Stilwell ' reported th a t Liberator bombers of the F o arteenth United States Air Force h a ve dropped twenty-five tons of explosives on Lashio, the southern terminal of the Burma Road, and raided several other Jap positions in ~hina. G n al ~ S i l ' Chinese troops in northern Burm have cat re a another inhabited lac~ ' k="+• c alled llalakawng, ~ ~ - - m i : . the Mogaung Valley /\ Road fifteen miles north of Ka ■ aing. General ~tilwell announces th a t the Chinese wiped out the Japanese gaz garrison completely. They not only t o ok Malakawng, but pushed ahead two miles and at last accounts were attacking another village held b the Japs. Stilwell's Chinese had a hard ti■ e at llalakawng, because the Jap garrison keld out for three weeks. Two attacks; although supported by tanks, were driven back. What this means is that K~maing is now practically isolated. J:t ~ '"tile arost heav i ly garrisoned - . ' ~ ~ Jap base/fa a~ northern Burma. S tilwell's communique goes on to indicate that th ~ American• a nd Chinese jun le fi hters under BURMA - 2 -------- B ri au i r Gener 1 F r a n errill r r ad ually pushing t e J s ut of Yyitkyina, w · tb that garrison still r e s i s t i n g ~ Ev ry pi l lbox end every A entrenchment has to be cleaned out one by one. However, it •i 1 not be long before the whole place is in our hands. ITALY ----- Americ n ou h y to y ir fir , t view of the Etern 1 1 y. ov e re wit ust A.n sweat a re iment of infantrymen climbed to he top of three t ous n foot eal, and from ere t e looked down on t e city o e even ills, its churc es an temples listenin w i e i n t e sunli t only miles a a y ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ Oncle Sm's inf~n rymen broke t rou ~ rt of the he vily fortifie azi line between Velletri and Valmontone. Under the fire of German snipers and machine gn ~ullet• they crawled Indian-fashipn through the vinyards and under brush. When they re~ched the top of the peak they were urprise how compar tively easy it had been. They ad expected a despera e ~and- to hand fi ht on the summit, b u t t e Jerries a left only a small rear guard. According to today's re , ort ey are mar e ing along the V lmontone Roa, an the 1 te t adv nee of ' ' those meric~n re 0 imen ~ a taken t em ree, a half mile trough the erm ~ n line. From :1 m· l i ar I . , y ----- 0 n of l i il l n ru T y el l on e ' ., n ~ . . n V nee beyon t. C o . e n e u r of Americ n ft F n 1 0 only t irteen miles from t e lfxxx cit y of the e r . As ni t fell, t ere w s e ~ vy fig hti n g all a 1 o 1 1 g the 1 in e fro m r a 1 mo n tone to Ve 11 et r i . T e Allies h ve surrounde el letri on tree sine• and it appe a rs like y o fall soon. Corresron d ent of wiss newsp1per in Rome say the fig ting now i so clo t a t the houses in the Race are shaking, nd win owo r t tl ing, from t e ince ssant roar of cannon. --- Th eriod of ecisive action is now a t h nd, ~ ecret 1 y o "· r Sti11son. At a press conferenc tod y the Secret . ry a ve out more informati n about forthcoming ev e nts in Europe t h a n ~ ~~. any offic ia~ ta.ae c:do:.ws . , Be declared that the High Command of the Allies h as now reached the final stage of its ■ aster plan for the all-out att continental fortress~Generals ck on Hitler's have almost co ■pleted deploying the air and ground forces of'the United States. a;;tLJ- ,?he movement of our forces on the ground is rapidly ~ nearing the peak. Th t lilt exactly what he said. /\ Then he added that there are now three ■ illion, six hundred and fifty-seven thousand men overseas, which is only about forty-seven percent of our total army strength. But even that is one million, five hundred & nd eventy-one thousand more than the entire strength of the A.E.F. in the First orld Before long there - 2 w i ll e more n five million Ameri n fi ti g me, i n t e the re~ o w r 1 11 over e v: or 1 . T npo er r y ir or ce 0 ove i r athe r 1 s t one lf of its to al s tren t , w i is two 1 l ion, ree un r e an fifty-se n.t ous nd. Te r my ir Fore now as seventy-five t ou and 1 nes, of w ich ir y-four t~ thou and are comb at i s . It is o er ting nine hundred and twenty-five bases broad, of which ~even hundred and fifty are ~irfields. And here are some figure ~ for the Navy. On th gigh seas or at fore1 n osts, there are some ont million five hun re an sixty-six t ous , n men oft~ Navy Ceast Gu r , an rine Corps. Alsp, t ere re nine hundre d t ou ~ a , y men ei her on t eir IR R - ______ ___ ________ .... , ~ effective th t i t was u nece ry to att a ck again. n still bP'f'ri · from oae point to emy a r ~ rolli stock./ ~ , iSA&CcWWi, the Fifteentli Air Force dispatched /\ flying forts and Liberators based . . on airfields in --- ..__ Italy/ to ,, raid Rumania again, particularly the airfields at Ploesti. q fourteen heavy bombers,~ ~ destroy..r forty-three enemy planes. H ·e i on for the fi m n. The ar De ertment published ist of tem orary captains in the Army, ho h v been romot d to Major. In that list is the name Gable. Y . s, film star Clark Gable, known to his intimates as Bill, now Major C ark Gable Bu 1 r i · has iv n in to th Nazis, evidently loc-, stock and barrel. n ultimatum••• rom Hitler as too much for them. So the Council of Regent• agreed to complete their close collabor tion with the Axis, also to brea off relations with Russia. Thereupon Prime iinister Boshilov resigned, a new Premier is in office now, thelazi Ambas:1:::<~tuall~Gauleit~M--t:"tN--tillllA4~~ c) r nt · roun t. Louis were op er'tin under a bi han icap to ay. The r ason, a strike of bus and streetcar operators. Some three thousand, five hundred oft em refu ed to runt o public transport vehicles,and thousan s upon thousands of war workers had either to al to their jobs or thumb a ride. The result as ,....,.4_:y traffic jam which requiredt'extra ,aeir •••• □ d,il@s tu: A . RIK --------- - The St. o u is p o lic orce is permitting otor c a r owners to use their automobiles as busses. Hun red of po le have b en ettin their cars out of storage and the po lie . c ief has ordered his men not to stop any man from driving without a license while th crisis la ts. The District Director of the O.P.A. has taken steps to provi.4fe motor car owners - ith extra•• gasoline rati n cotpons/ ..,, • The coupons are bein taken to St. Louis from Chicago and (ansaa City by airplane. Taxi sz drivers are working aroand the clock and some of them have put in twenty-four hours continuous driving. D -- Be r is an interesting a vertisement t•at ~ c:t. . appe a red in W.. regiment a l newspaper published on the A island of Bougainville in theSolo ■ ons. It was inserted by one of the officers of the regiment. It reads: •wanted: Three soldiers who lo•e the ereat outdoors and nature. Pleasant wort consisting of drawing lines with colored pencils, collecting Jap souvenirs, answering the telephone, and killing Japs. Soae pat.rolling, long hours, and no oYertiae.• And it end1: •Apply Battalion Intelligence Office.• •nd av.re •a will -tie na t, o aacW.01 11i:ad- of» iAtelligence offieer, B•gh Ja ■ cr~ De ocratic Ch~ir n B ob Hann eg a n waa in bacram to today.) ~ in an optiroistic moodA ~ich is t e p rmanent duty o everJ C airman of any politica pa ty. Bo b Hanna · an • s crowin over the vote that w as iven for California Spnator Sheridan Downey in the r e cent primarie". Said Hannigan, •that is a definite endor ement of Pr sident Rooaevelt and t•e New Df)al•. he yst r1 us ' ire • i ich roke out in southern C lifornia last ni ht con inued to blaze today. La . t ni g ht it ourned down a bride on the Santa Fe Railro d ne r the county line bet een laa San Die o and Oran e Counties. This paralyzed~ railxc I travel bet•een Los Angeles and San Diego with trains stalled on both sides of the San ~ateo tressle south of San Clemente. A ~arge force of workers has b en fighting t h ~ ; ; : ; day including profeaaional aad volunteer firemen and also volunteers from the Marine Corps. T er w · d a y w ne r v lions, n d v lopment b y ci ti t · were r port d anti rely fro t e At. iJ But now , almost ev e ry month, the chemi t and ~•J■ ,aJ phy icists on\he Pacific Co ast are turnin out somethin ne .. For instance, three chemists of t e Univ e rsity of C.lifornia have produced -'. synthetic su ga r in the laboratory at Berkley. The A learned Doctors r ported tl at w l a t t h ey pro d uc d was only a be inning, stric t ly ■ l••••t•zJ elemental, a ■ l no commercial ap licatiou of the process is possible ~ at this time. Still and all~•e~ is a beginning. From «1111-:-Ara:Wr near Los Angeles comes news of another discovery that may mean a~lot in the daily ives of every o n e of us, a new source ~or 0 11. It comes from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography of the south rn branch of the Univer ·ty of ~~li ornia. The Pro es or of Marine Micro-Biolo y there has discovered b a cteria bJ which we may be able to c nvert fish-remain into oil an w ich ay al · o facili te the locati o n of un ger . roun d oil p ools . f or o n e ni ht. o 11 uch i o r c i . nee • .B I s o r ~ r a in a1 on the Pacific l.;oa t:- Th lio cc s ill b runnin on Bing Crosby's racin tr ck, th Del r, f or t h irty six days this summ r, rom July ir t t.o Au , \& t , ineteentb . seems to be a place to make a crack about Bing's horses, but I thin~ I'l l le ve that to Bob Hope. This POLYG MY -----~---- li ~· ·e is t h e la t e t on th red-haired Michigan lady who married fifteen husbands. On one occasion in le Yor k , in the course of a quarrel with one of the fifteen, she passed herself off as a daughter of the late Sena or James Couzens of Michigan. Under that name she was taken to a hospital in Bew York City, claiming that the husband of the aoaent had given her a beating. The lady said there was no evil intent in her polygaaoua pastiaes. She just wanted a chan9e and didn't go to the trouble of obtaining divorcee. ~ut what makes the law so ■uch ln"earnest about it is the . charge that she has been receiving a war wife's benefit• fro ■ no fewer than three soldiers and a marine.---- Here is a littles ory from ~n land illustrating wh t r a dio can do. An of~ic e r in a police car was rid in down a rod in Lincolnshire. Evidently-tt; ~ fri htened a hor s in a field nearby, for the ani ■ al bolted a nd alloped down the road , The copper, instead of chasing after the horse, just switched on tbe aicrophone of the public address system in his car, and shouted WHOA! ~ ~ Ii :i:11-4 t:t' ~ I "'I.be horse stopped immedi tely, and stood nervous and still quiYering. The copper continued to call soothing words to the ~Yt,,, animal until some far■ hand~ came on the scene and led him a way. •