Lili-Z-SUNOCCL_ MOIMY, FEBRUARY 22t 19A3. \ 11 * 3 hi GOOD EVENING EVEPYBODY: The swift tank columns of Marshal Rommel have advanced sixteen mil£s further in their blitzkrieg r through the American lines. This morning’s communique from Tunisia brought the grim word that a crushing '' urgernault of seventy Mark-6 tanks had rolled twelve lies from the hole they punched in the^ efeases Kesseriae Pass. They "ere then atigerously elose to Thai., -hich Is the anchor post f the vital Allied line in northern Tunisia. Thai. s held by the British. Tonight’s co.nunique reads 4-/- nt - i +*vnl:e5 are now within hat Rommel's fifty-seven ton tanivS four miles of Thala m However, there is one word of consolation. LEAD - 2• Q 5 spokesman at Allied headquarters declare that /- the situation is under control Nevertheless, there is no denying that the Nazi Field Marshal's rolling monsters offer a grave threat to the whole British, French and American line in northern Tunisia. The story today was not entirely one of retreat. American troops ere ordered by their generals to stand at all costs. ^They not only i ^^in+<3 but hammered back two their lines at several points, oui^ if attacks by the supporting Nazi divisions. The Germans rolled to .ithln four .lies of Th.U because our side , u n0 equipment that kk can stand up to has, as yet, no equ p ^ / _ fiftv seven ton Mark-6s? are really those new iilty-seveu y A , mo nn pd bv a crew of five, land battleships, each manned by • htv-eight millimeter cannon and two armed with an ei£ ^ They can take almost any 30-calibre machine gu - p r + , i- w-r against them from the iront shells that can be The only way to smash them is from the side. Rommel uses these battle-wagons in a flying v/edge formation, preceded by smaller tanks running interference. Military observers tell us the whole operation is a gamble on Rommel's part. is counting on this t^^-rd±i^ blitzkrieg attack to^^frt^ the Allied communication lines in northern Tunisia and, if possible, t=9 undermine the entire line before the advancing British Eighth Army under General &e=FWHT4 Montgomery arrives on the scene. Desperate fighting is now going on. American and French reinforcements are coming up, and there is . VioiH he ore the Rommel hope that the line can be held oe-ore . .. vital railroad that runs from spearhead can cut the vital rcixi m . Tunisia, four miles beyond Thala ebessa to northeast Tu i I RUSSIA The Russians have some speetao ulag good news but they are not telling it tonightf^9B=^ saving it for to morrow. ^Tomorrow is a Red letter day in Soviet Russia, the Twenty-Fifth Birthday of the Red Army, ft** they are holding back some new triumphs over the Nazis toAke±p=?^^^their celebration. However, the Nazis ~ *'■ ' ' tn°w spreading the news that the y>*, Soviet high command is holding back. /It was a Racio broadcast from Berlin that reported another break­ through by the Bed Army on the Dnieper River front. They have crashed through the line at Zaporozhe, at the southern end of the big bend of . .v twenty-five miles to the south of Don Fiver and on^y t'eniy Dnieperpetrovsk. • + naHv admitting-a new defeat, the After virtually au! „ . +hen try to minimize it. They say that the Nazis then iij RUSSIA,. 2 1 German generals have taken counter-measures, tatt—trfcejfe A- have not yet taken full effect. Of this break-through towards Zaporozhe, the Soviet high command says nothing. And the only explanation is that they are saving the announcement for tomorrow. There is a report in London, whiclj came by way of Stockholm, that the Nazis are already preparing to evacuate not only i Dneperpetrovsk - <?V\ but also all of Estonia^-i=**e^hores of the Baltic. I s: Many arc of the stories that come by way of Stockholm have beenA- ^^1^ P^mature. But ^hen the A A Germans themselves admit it, there is no leason doubt that the Red Army has broken through again on the Dnieper. Th, Berlin radio ala. ad.its that a .edge of ihe - • ran westward along the coast of the Soviet army has driven Sea of Azov and widened the corridor north of RUSSIA.,* ? Mariupol. The German garrison of Taganrov, thirty-live miles west of Moscow, is now threatened with KHKizKxaxx encirclement. i OREL One ofthe most vivid accounts of a modern battlefield is given in adispatch sent by the leading novelist of Soviet Russia. Among other observations, he uses these v/ords: "A ground wind is dxififciHg drifting snow over the corpses on the battlefield, and occasionally sweeping it away to reveal part of them.” He goes on: nA pair of nose glasses, which have survived by som4 miracle, quiver in the wind. The German nose which wore them is obscured by the snow. Straw boots, complex optical instruments, cases of French cnampa^ ne The bodies of thousands of Germans, squashed by tanks; xhEMffxxxixgiBXKxy chauffeurs* gloves, a mass of Mercedes, Buick, Renault cars, pictures of Hitler xip aplashed with blood, litter the reddened snow." The Russian novelist goes on to tell one ^■,1+ nf n film rather than incident which seems to come an historic description oj . A Russian lieutenant OREL - 2 ■■ made his way throughttie German lines at Kursk, as ant, ft# A -- 4L ‘^8- —% H e ’ ^w-a-s——e^,'^'Lh:f>s-e—m-en—w-h-e --G-a-rapy—t-l^e —mG-e-s-a^a tro—G-e^e-ira. de got the information he was after and went back with it to his commanding officer. And ^when the Red troops went fighting through the streets of Kursk, the same lieutenant was with them. Then there is the tale of the lone Russian captain who captured seventy German tommy gunners at one clip. The Russian was only twenty years old. He told the novelist-correspondent that he just v;ent up to one of the Germans, clapped him on the shoulder, and said: "Well done, you are surrendering!" It was news to the Nazi gunner and in his bewilderment he put up his hands. Thereupon, the other sixty-nine did likewise. disguised as a pe All this happened, in the recent battle of OEEL - 3 t ; ,astornoye, which led to the capture of Kursk. The cities of Voronezh and Kursk were captured e -cW by a thirty-six year old general. Efe is the son of a A railroad worker^ but,his accomplishments in the war are the direct consequence of his young ambitions. For, while he was at school, he wrote a thesis from which plans were developed that culminated in the development of one of the most formidable tanks used by the Red Army. O V\>-€ The writer also says that for days many of thsHM*- victorious Russian soldiers were advancing with nothing to eat but dry bread^washed down with French champagne captured from the Germans. HA ITS The Hoyal Air Force has just completed its / fourteenth major raid against Germany this month. Fourteen big league raids in twenty-one days.1 The latest assault was on Bremen, th« second biggest port in Germany. Th'aH^nr&dre Ihe hundred and second the raid Bremen has suffered, s hundred and second since the beginning of the war. But thisas the most catastrophic of them all. For last night, the sW ^V| ^ „ . « RAF Bremen with more than a hundred ot ...... A™5’ _ their two ton block busters. It was the first hight raid on Bremen since last October, and the long lapse had evidently lulled the defenders of the city into Ar^ ■f'vr the first time in completely by surprise. ^ > the case of a raid of such magnitude, not a single British plane was lost. The British Air Ministry at: usual does not Ri\IDS_- 2 tell us hov; many planes were -trk-e y ' l! as they 5 But xkxkxx ^ dropped more than a hundred of those blockbusters^ Twenty minutes after the Britishers appeared over the harbor, the glow of fires could be seen in the many aircraft factories, submarine shipyards and other naval installations. F, Bremen is one of the most important centers for submarine construction in the Beich. It is also the the biggest Focke-Wulf and dive bomber factories, to say nothing of oil reiiners, jute factories and grain mills At th4 same time v;e learn that the Eighth United States Army Air Force is making ready to step up its daylight raids to the scale of a thousand planes at a time L RATIONING The rationing tables, the point system, as published today apparently a^-t-o-und-e4—&nd~-s4r«:fH^ed—a -LirB--d7iTir«--oe^n4^^^ comment of British housewives is that the Americans are exceedingly fortunate. American women should not complain, said one <rsj^r~2 ^ British woman, because^fctey^ra^get pineapple and fruit There are households in Britain that have not juices. had any fruit juices for more fcxh than two years. ^ The Briti sh housewife is allowed twenty points for six seeks. ,If she »»nts helf a pound of tongue, she to gi»« up sixteen of those t.enty points A we and then probably ^get it* There are complaihts from Washington and nt officials are taking elsewhere that some gove.nme tioning to put over social reform. ifically to a group of advantage of food rc± That charge was made spec *-i+o+TVP of fruit and the representati senators today by RATIONING - 2 vegetable growers in Florida. The Florida man leveled his criticism particularly at the Farm Security it Administration. He described^as impracticable, bound by red tape, and dripping with social reiorm. He stated that the Florida growers need seventeen bousand laborers to cultivate and pick their crops. So far, he declared, the Farm gecurity Agency Cj sent them some two thousand, mostly riffraff. Meanwhile, he added, there are eighteen thousand good workers who off the ....t/i. the B.ha.ee, Bht A they are not allowed in. i similar charge .a. made in Me. York h. lilliam Felices «.rgan, former Commissioner of Markets Mew York Cit,; As no. running a cold storage m iS convinced, he -saysv business. E.-Co».Usioner Morgan „e„ gas an ulterior motive and that that the food Prog is _ to change the or esent s,ste. of distribution and RATIONLNG - 3 eliminate the jobber. W-gh&h-i-R-g-ton fioncldxrg the A e-x-tr a midiLle—-at^n . Ex-C om isi^on-e-3^ MoT^raiimi ohar-re - in aia .in t. anw i-ew NEW VWtt? J5LEi:£C^AM lie kntrifa—fray-g^ be-ca-uge^^ttftett ^-0 —f* K"S C O he—e aee -4 e444=e=#H=lrs - erf -^rh e Byp a o u <xaaxix< piyod action, PS TRY Za. tq_ SF that the United States-has 7\ accomplished in one year of war production what it took (jxZss^rt the Nazis eight years to d o. ^&¥^ry-h-ei 7r Aat the speed with which American peace industr.es have > turned over and become war industries. An illustration of this is afforded the latest annual letter written *) j. Howard Pew as President of the Sun Oil Company to the stockholders. A petroleum company has to make particularly difficult and even revolution^dhanges /P in order to becofce a war industry, e^tlside from producing oil and gasoline, t£fc?n,pany owns the, bigg6St commercial shipbuilding plant in the country. KTO^In Nineteen Forty-One employed ninety-nine hundred ^ople . ** the^ end of Nineteen Forty-two,y /? ^5r^*fit7thous and had gone over to INDUSTRY-- 2 r armed service? In Nineteen Forty-Two, Sun built forty-six big sea-going vessels quite aside from making extensive repairs on others that had been ^ ^ (k torpedoed. Altogetheramount® to the trrgf turning out,a new ship every week. $kjt The Comoany1s own f eet of seventeen tankers was turned over to the government. Seven of^them were torpedoed.twt—tttairfeSj to the seamanship and gallantry of their crews, five crf-t?h<ni were salvaged and brought f into port and have been made seaworthy. . ------ - o --------- '^z/ A*v/when you hear about th6 superb performances of don't forget B is dne in^rg, ' tfthe'^pl. supplies of high octane gasoline , , , ot tnat ninety per cent of that we have. .It turns all the high octane^gasoline »e« y • , bv the Houdry process, in the development was oroauced by JoU ttj. v of ,hich the sun Oil Co.p.ny.h.d' sn INDUSTRY - 3 ^ number of Hourdry plants are being built and will A shortly be in operation for the catalytic production of synthetic rubber. ■p-e Forty* ‘“Sua -€rnxt:s^l»^^e-s—t-o t he—4>«me ssv qh "hundred—tliree- thous^e-nd. rioi L^i-s. of ■' t%a t'- in all, there are more than forty thousana war _ 1 workers in the Sun Company's army.^They aim to make an even bigger showing this ^ear* r 6L WASHINGTON Sergeant Sidney Kingsley of the United States Army celebrated Washington*© Birthday by bringing to light some facts not generally known about the Father of our Country. Kingsley says a pity that we*ve made George into a plaster of parris bust to frighten .children.He thinks it is unfortunate we know the first President mostly by the • ell painted bat grip portraits of Gilbert/Jt=«**. Washington, he^^tri-sr^Vas a most human fellow, who liked to go fishing^ .liked theatre and went to see shows whenever he could. Sidney Kingsley'has reason to know more than most of us about George Washington. Aside from being a sergeant in Uncle Sam's Army, he in the author of the play called "The Patriots", which some critics d as the finest and most moving piece have descricea a-) on t he • stare today. The principal characters American WASHII[GTM_- 2 in it are Jefferson and Washington and Alexander Hamilton. Kingsley spent years of research before he wrote a word of dialogue for "The Patriots." He told me one thing today which I never knew before. During the terrible winter at Valley Forge,Washington encouraged the production of a play by some of the officers and men of his frozen and starving army. What play? One that none of us has ever seen or probably ever will see -- "Addison's Cato." arithmetic The Nazis have a lew grievance against the T^ctr Russians, /fhey have ixxia been insulted by one of the Soviet school manuals. the first grade text book on arithmetic, teaching little Russians ho?/ to add and subtract. To make lessons easier, the A text books of other countries use apples, orsnges or marbles to illustrate the sum. For instance, if I have six apples and you swipe one, how many have I left? The Soviet books put the question this way "If there shoot one, how many are left?" rfQne too many. So <5u£ ^