t,,RD
PACIFIC
Bere'a the latest -- still another air
blow
against
the
Japa,
thia one
by
MacArthur'• planes.
Their
bases are now ao near
to the Philippines that
eYen
the fi&htera
are aoing after
the
Japa
on
Mindanao
General
MacArthur'• report tells
how a aquadron of
fighters aurpriaed
a
big Jap aotor
conYoy,
and shot
it
to
wreckage. The
■otor
conYoJ consisted
of
aixty-two
trucks and aix staff cars, in which high Japanese
officer•
aay
ha•• been riding.
If
10,
the Japa
aay
preaentl1 be reporting••• aore
ooa■andera
tilled
in action.
PACI!t'lf
CJ,,,...~
The
sea an
ir
fi
g
htin ,
of· Mte
:li.ahnli-
8'-
'-t,4
~ ~ ~ ' c t -
\.e.
~
~ -
Formosa"
b
~•Dl»l-Mt;-
?\
a
giant
battle
of the
sky.
lto
mi
'n.t
_
(
i4a
v a 1
.c.ngagemen
t
bet~e;n
.•are hips
and their giant
W-ll
~
(2 ' ' ' " " "
..t
~
~
g u n s . ~
main
J
p111le11e
1''1
et took a look, but
that
was
all.
~
or nine
daysAd ■ 1LiJ
H
lsey's
gP&M
fleet has
been pounding the Japs
long the line from the Ryukyu
Islands
to For-mosa._
Au
\hat.Le
the
lciaa
j•et-c--enta
el
..,..._ t
'
inally,
the
•ikacio's
~avy
felt
urgently called
upon
to
make
an appearance.-- dnd
1
an
appearance
was
all
that it made. Admiral
iimitz
reveals that the
~ar
¥1eet
of J
a
pan came steaming to
the
outer range of fighting
distance and
then withdre
~ot liking
the
looks of
the
aerican
Squadr-ons
of
war~hips,~tbe
battleships,
,.,~.
the carriers, the cruisers,~ craft
of
all
sizes.
.
I\.
a;:,e the
J
·
ps
were
not so foolish.
-
Bee use a
dispe.tch
today from
P
cific
neadquarters
tells us that ~alsey's
Fleet
out there is
the
greatest
Naval iorce
ever
~
assembled o ~
ocean.
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i\
Citl
C
-----
-
-
l
im
o
f
u
e
vict
o
ry
a
re
de
ci ively
ne
ga
tiv
e
d
b
·
a
di.:pa
tc
h
from
-
dmi1·
a
l
imitz
tod
8 _,
.
The
:i
s
have
been
c
l
a1min
11
sorts
o
f ba
ttleships, c
a
rriers,
and
crui
s
rs
sunk
b
their
orces.
i
imitz
informP us
concis
ly
that
n
o
m
.
rican
Eattles
ip or
ircraft
Carrier
as
even
been
dam
a
ged
.
The
on
l
y harm our
sh
ips have
suffer
e
d h
s
been damage
inflicted on two medium-sized
craft -
presumably
cruisers or
destroyers. These
two
were
hit
by
J
ap
anese
"
or edo
Pl
nes,
nd ·ithdrew from
the scene of action -- to
get patched
up.
The simple
fact i
that
Halsey's bleet
is
still out there -- off the Coast of Formosa -- still
engaged in a great battle.
But
it is not a battle with
the Japanese Fleet -- it's ir action, ~ith Japanese
Planes
making frantic attempts to
get at
the American
arships - their dive bombers and tor
whirling in swarms.
They
are
bein
g
met
edo
planes
-tb.
by,(.fi hter planes
of the
American ~arriers,
and huge sky
fi
e
hts are being
ACI
F
IC
3
-----
n
c
c
ount l
o
ni
l is
from LEuten
nt
.1.,ut
er
r
ter
of
g
r,
v
}
io,
n
ce
who
h
n
shot down three
nemy
l
anes
in
t
h
r
sent
seriPs
o
f
1r
en
g
a em@nts:
"
nev
r
dr
amed
of
uch confusion," says
he,
"There
were
zeros all around
us
flyin
g
in
i ■
twos,
threes and
sixes.
~
would see
a
couple of
zeros
on some ody's
tail,
d')-'\..(_
and try to
shootAdown.~&e.
1hen
three or our
would get
on
me,"
&e relates.
T
he
latest
is
that the first line of Japanese
Air
to
er is in action. The ace-air units of
J
pan
are
in action against Halsey's Fleet, and they are being
shot to ribbons.
In
a large part, it's a contest between
Japanese land-based planes and American
Carri~r Planes
-
And
the result may be of utmost significance in the
war.
·
he supposition has
been
that Carrier
Planes
can't match
land-based plans, but
now
we
hear
that
Halsey's
ri
hter
Pilots
are
doing
just that
as
they cut to pieces the
Ja anese
firt
line of air
def
nse. All of
which
leads to
the surmice that
sooner
or later
this
same
sort of
thing
may be done
off th
e
Coast
of Japan its
e
lf,
with
A
merican
Ca
rrier-bas
d
ircraft defeating
the
Japanese land-
ased
forces
at
home.
l f
that
should eventually happen, it
mi ht be the patternk"the ultim te defeat of Japan.
Our own land-based bombers ar~
playing
a
greet
part in the air
action
at ~
·
ormosa, the super-flying
fortresses, the B-
2
9
1
s.
Once a
g
ain they've struck - so
we hear today. 1h
e
super-fortresses, based on secret
Chinese flying Fields, delivered their third blow in the
present engagement. They smashed once again
·
at Japan's
great
~aval
Base on formosa,
And
today's word is that
*k~
they've knocked out the target.
Here's a statement from
Major
General Lemay,
Chief of the
20th Bomer
Command: "After today," says he,
•Formosa no longer should be a target for the 20th Air
Force."
"Everything was smashed
·
to the
ground."
And
to
this he
ad
8 ,
"For
the
first
time
we've
competely destroyed
a
tar
el."
~
Qs
i
f
that were
not enough for the Japs,
?A
IFIC
-
5
---='- -
their s
i
p
ook
n
a
rial
b
atin
near
on kon.
Liberators of
'
eneral
'
h
.
nnault's
China-based
Air
Force
smashed
them
here --
sinking
a cruiser and
probably
a
destroyer, and blastin
g
forty-six
thous
a
nd tons of
cargo
vessels.
The
word is
that the Japanese Ves
s
els
1led
from
the
great
battle
area
of
Formosa and
took refuge
in the
Hongkong
ector.
hey thought they'd be safe there
only t o t ke a
pounding
from ~hennault's Liberators •
•
-
The
most bitter
ki'nd
of
r·
ht
1g
in
e
is
raging
in
Aachen.
oat
of the ruined city has been captured
by
the
Americ ns, and the Germans
hold
only a small
moreover, that there are only a few of
the ■,
the count
ranging from six hundr
e
d to two thousand. But they are
putting up a desperate resistance.
Not only that, but
~
,.ar
e
attacking.
Today the remnants
of
the garrison launched
suicide counter-attacks against the advancing Americans,
lashing forward with crazy fanaticism. They've been
getting some supplies by air, and last night a few
German supply trucks got through to them via a narrow
corridor.
Apparently they've been led to believe that
they are about t
o
be relieved, that a German armored
force will soon drive through the American siege ring -
and all they
have
to do iS hold out.
With
this delusion
they are making a final fight of violent desperation -
in spite of which the final capture of Aachen can
■i
only be a matter of a brief time.
I
)
.
dct ed
i
i
_:
h
L
t.,
t
d
1
·
i
v
e
of
t
e
ro~n
d
ores --
y
h
u
rl
in
a
r
cord
r
a
king
au
lt
a
"
in
l
h
city
\·
hie
ir
o
f
s
uch
d
omin
tin
im
ort
c
on
the
este
n
ront
C 1
,
o o
ne
.
·
enl,v
-on
e
u
ndr
d, m
ri
can
~ar
1
n
es
, o
f
which thirteen
hun
d
red
Yte
re
Fl
,
in
F
o
r
tre
s
es
a
nd
Liberators,
aim
d
t
en
ty-six
aixx
bun
rd
tons of
ex
pl
o ives
a
nd inc
e
n i r i s
a
t
mi
l
itar
y
tar
ts
.
h
e
principal
of t
hes
e
w
ere
railroad
ar
s --
fh
e
main
p
urpo e of the att ck heinP ohviously
to cri
pp
le
azi
Trans
ort
a
tion t
h
rou
h
Colone,
which
is one of
~
rm
a
n 's
g
r
e
at
raill'4MM
center
s
.
that
"
.
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.
a
OU
h
f
ore
of
i
'ty
ti- i cr
a
tt
.
1
.
A
pn
rentl.
t
P.
uc
ID
I
S
1·
tzy
in
to
t,
r o
th
u
e
p
roj
ctile
up
on
I
the
m ri
c
a
n
Formatio
ns, in
the
ho
.
t
h
A
t
the
violent
.x
losion
ould
et com
t
tin •
lf so,
their
ope~
s
di
ppointed,
becAuse
the
~
cret
w
.
a
on
lew
up iell to
the
r
r
of
the
Americ
n ...
1
u
dron
in its
vicinity.
D
h
a
u.
'
i
n
n
.
ov r
t
in
·
ic t
d
tod
i
a
l
t
i
I
•
th
o
01
m
'
n
d
- •
n -
i
f
o
th
e
"'
ir
t
un
,
1
rmy,
n
,,
al
a
nok,
h
s
moved ov
r
i
the
other
, j
in in
,
the
-1
us i n •
n.
nd
i
is
b
li
v
d
h t h
Comm nd r o
th
tlun
ri n
cond
Army
n
done
th
e
s
meting.
,
i
'
·t
r
i
t
0
t
of
a
1,.
i
nd
/
/-
-
ni
llie
11,
·ould
i
d
to
.
t
I
th
ort
'
ck
- 7'res7
ly
Troo/
would
ei
loo
ith
/
,-
i
th
'w
o
co
/
/
re
/
/
osco~
has
word
that a
eneral Strike is on
in
Budap
st
n
thats
oradic
fi
tin
is r
a
ing
etween
hn
ti-1azi
~ungarians
nd
~ative
F
scist
supported
th
u
rmans.
Berlin reports that the Soviet Army has
opened a great battle for tast Prussia, and admits
that Red
Army
troops have reached the East Prussian
border at one point at least.
'14lem ie ne
eenfi:r ■ a\i9R
Moscow
t
lls
of
\
oviet
troops at still
another border, that of Czechoslovakia.
Pushing up
from Rum nia and driving through Transylvania~Red
Army
forces are within two miles of the frontier of
...
._..
the Czechoslovak~.-.~~• And they are only thirty-one
~
miles from
a junctio~.t the Sovi
t
forces in Poland.
UROBE
_________
..,..._.
__ _______
Hr
'ea battle front pred
·
ction about the
war in Europe.
United
PAess
correspondent
alter
Cronkite writes:
"There are sixty-eight
fi
hting days
left until Christmas.
And,
barring the miracle of
political col
apse
inside
of
Germany,
we
may as
well
face a hard fact. We won't be out
of the fox holes
by
rP:.
.
then•.
The war correspondent points out that since
the great rush to the German border, the Allied forces
have gained little ground - a month of static warfare.
And
everywhere
the
enemy
appears
to be
operating on a
plan of holding out through the winter.
0
.
)
LEC'I I
1
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~
E.
lection
D
a
y
b
ju
s
t three
weeks
away,
and
I
for
one
ill be
glad when
it com sand
g
oes. It's
the
same thing every Preside tial Year --
A
radio
news
man is
on the spot. Une side
cla~■Vavoring
the
other, and
~ g e t a
to fe3l that anything,,..
saye
about
politics is likely to draw a barrage of brickbats.
This
year it's more so than ever -- the
t ■ ax
~
tenseness of the Election Campaign being so much
greater.
And I feel mighty uncomfortahle about some things that
friends of the radio audience writei--
~
sometimes
~
t1
·
~
letters are not so frie~•lh.
- 5 ~
~
11
..A
~ ~ ~ , f f . ~ ~ + ~ ·
One charge is that, in telling the political
news,,A
I favor
Dewey.
Any time we have a bit of
news
about the
hepublican
Candidate, that complaint is
likely
to come
,
..
..,,..,
he s
a
;
know
lh
e
trouble, I think, is to be found in the
es
se
ntial
news
situation that exists
w
hen a President
i
runnin
g
for reel
e
ction. 1he ndministr
a
tion in
-
~ ~ '
power
i
s
nec
e
s arily in the
news~
'T
he
resi ent in the
EL
E
CTION
-
3
__
,
__ _
hite
ouse
1s
in
such
a
position
th
a
t
R
ftY
public
st
tement
he
m
a
kes is
news.
ue
is constantly in
the
public
eye_-- which is a t r e m e n d o u ~ g e ~
~ : t ~ ~ a t ~ t
of our
Am;rican
Political
~ystem.
The opposition candidate, on the other hand,
can only make campai
g
n declarations and argum nts, and
people
warmly
in favor of the Administration don't
consider
·this
news -- especially in war time. But it is
news,
and
should be considered as such. Even in
war
time, the
American
Constitutional processes are
important, and how can our
Constitutional
Opposition
be heard, if it's
not
considered
news?
-
L
C'fl__
-
4
ftie
office.
!
suppose it is all as it should be -
political warmth bein
g
the proper part of the interest
of Americans in their
Government
.
Dut, just the same,
'11 be
glad
hen
Tuesday,
~ovember
Seventh,
comes
and
goes.
lt is
nnounced
that
t'resident
oosev
1
t
will
m
a
te
am
meetin~ cam
ai
n
speech
in
ilr
lphis
OD
0ctober
~
enty-sev
nth --
ten days before el ction.
This
as
st
ted
today by
avid L
wrence, Chairman
of
the
rennsylvania
btate
Democratic Committee~
wCc,b
s a i f , f
ill
be~
strai
ht-out
political
rally held in ~hibe
Park,
the American League
Baseball
~rounds.
!he
grandstand
and bleachers there will
seat
between
thirty-five and
forty-five
thousand
people,
and
a
full house is
expected.
Chairman L wrence
m de
the
nn
o
uncem nt after
a visit
to
the
hite
ouse today.
tie
called on the
t1esident as am mer
of a
.
delegation representing what
is c lled
Businessmen
for
Roosevelt.
1his group
i
one of the spon ors of the
fort
coming t'resi ential
Campaign
peech
in the
B
a
ll
ark.
~ere has been much
dr
,
cussion about
heth r
the Presieent wou
d
or
ould not m ke
y
more
1
ctioneering
ad
d
r
' 8
s,
an
,
he ter
he
ould
m
k
OO
S
f
.
LT
.-.-------
--
any
i
-
,
tim
u
lie
.
aranc
s.
T
oda
_r'
stor
gives
Ub
n ~n
er
in t
he
case of
hiladelphia at least.
nd th re
are surmis
s that
the
Pr
sident
will make
other
campai n
appearances,
pos
·
i
•
ly
in lllinois, Ohio,
a
acnusetts
and
lew
York.
fOLIT!CS
The give and take of the presidential
campaign was lively in the
news
taily,
after Governor
Dewey's address in St. Louie last night - in which he
denounced the blundering in foreign relations by the
administration. He said that this nation's
representation abroad is now what he calls "on the
brink of chaos•.
longer
t
aocratic
si ewe have
t
e
Army
and
I
avy
- delay d{.obilization.
Dewe-1
issued
• And
today's
by
the
Ba
ional Resou
ces Planning
W h r u s e decla
tion contends t
9,&ndidate fai d to mention
/
her
commendation
t
what
the
repor
calls -
/
peedily but ord-erly and contMlled
/
b.
d
. h
demobiliMi'tion•.
This
to in
~
se employ
, L
- com
1ne
w
/
IILLII~
Today at Rushville, Indiana, a telling
phrase was spoken at a funeral. They laid Wendell
lillkie
to rest in his Indiana
home town, Willkie
the author and protagonist of ONE
ORLD.
The funeral
rites were
conducted
by
the Reverend Doctor
Frant1,
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis,
and here is the eloquent line he spoke.
ln behalf
of Indiana, he said of Wendell Willkie:
"We gave hia
to the nation, and the natiijn gave him to the world".
~
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~
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6
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--
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c:r
' IN
l
~_..~,ee_ •
llero'a a
late
flaaa
~
frem
Bavaaa
ii~---
~
~
~
i,usiness houses and theTaters cloaed down tonight~
~ ,
,..__as Cuba awaits a hurricane. The big blow is expected
to hit during the night, and Cuba is taking all
precautions against the violence of the wind. Florida
is getting ready too, a• the hurricane is expected
to hit the southern part of the state.
Thereis no
clear indication of its probable course after that.
!JiTERAI
Tod
a man appeared before a draft board
in Philadelphia, and went through the usual routine
which gave him a big laugh.
Be was Marine Sergeant
Albert A.Schmid, the blind hero of Guadalcanal.
Home
from
his battlefield ordeal of valor,
which left him with sightless eyes, he was given a
hero's welcome
by.
his home town.
Philadelp,ki&.
But
he had enlisted in the Marines, and had never gone
through the selective service Ped tape. And so presently
he got an order to report to his draft board.
The blind hero of Guadalcanal retains his
gift of mirth. "I laughed
my
head
off
when I received
"
the paper•, he said today.
~
Imagine me
registering
for the draft".
But he carried out the routine.
Be put
on
his
Marine
uniform, his purple heart, his Navy Cross,
and the gold medal awarded to him
by the city of
Philadelphia.
And
to the draft board he went, escorted
by
his young wife, whom he married after he came back
as a sightless veteran.
VETEJ!!I
2
At the draft board they
were
somewhat
~
astonished,
but
d
,
oggedly"'
wen
,
t
through
t e
mot
ion
,
s.
•They
asked me
my
age.••
height and number of
dependents•.
Says th~
Sergeant.
•Then
they tol•
•~ to return home and they would advise me later
ot
•1 draft classification•.
Here's the classifica~ion they should give
...............
---
him:--
as brave back home as be was in battle against
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