GQOD EVERIR~, EVERYBODY: .tbou t tn_ii fill bf \c bar kov _....,.,,.B,...),.b"ll,...rJ""P"b .. b"l 111 6"'I•J-- ~•••• i~ fell yesterday -- there are two different versions. The from the Berlin radio, which announced that their troops from the largest city of Russia. In fact, had withdnawb kraine, fourth lazi broadcast aade light of the event, said that IharkoY today was ■erely • heap of d and that the Ger■ana had ix evacuated according to plan -- all in the course of detaching movements. The••• announcement from Moscow came later; and, it tells us a different story. In fact, the fall of [harkov was proclaiaed in an order o f t ~ day an order from Premier Stalin to his victorious J,... ... WAD. - 2 armies. It was addressed in the most formal an4 theatric fashion to three of his generalsi and,it said that troo s of the Steppes front, with the active cooperation of troops from the Voronezh and southwest of the eneay and 7r • Thus, continued Stalin, the second capital of the Ukraine has been treed from the yoke of the German Fascist scoundrel. '7P,.h, Soviet Premier then ordered that at nine o'clock in the evening, Moscow, in the naae of the fatherland, should salute the gallant troops that liberated IharkoY, , 1 S Z ~ ~ Awith twenty artillery twenty-four guns. concluded his order of the day ,, with the words:- •Death to the German invaders, signed Supreme Commander Marshal Stalin., It,is interesting to observe that the Red Dictator used the words •German invaders.• Earlier .LJAD_- J in the w a r, all the official com■ uniques and army . bulletins referred to the invaders as Fascists or Bitlerites, never as Germans h t -t:oa.eJ..Ahe-nniemtJrktr ~ ~ 4 ~ - ~ The story of Iharko~~b1t::=~tb~eg::::1MM;&~b~■a1i:::la.s...eMati"A• ~~ W-,,V-Z.. hs;;g, t.J I he•' •hii•)- The city was first captured by the Ger■ans~e:~o~go, b October, Bineteen ~ Forty-One. Then the Red army retook it February A Sixteenth of this year• 'Sut iH n o t ~ : \ , long~ A- A " - A.ass than a aonth later, on March fifteenth, the __, 4- lazia were in there again. Experts tell us that fro ■ a ailitary point of view, Kharkov sill not be of much use to the Rod army--- -tlJ-~ Ator several months. Eight railroads run in and out of the place, but they have long since be n rendered useless. In peacetime, it had a population of LEAD - 4 --- eight hundred and thirty-three thousand. When t~e Russians retook it last February, they found only ti'iz. But not all of/\.WI•• had evacuated three ~~ hundred thousand of tbe people of Kharkov; xt•ll; a]q ~ 7 P ~ } ~the great tractor and other machinery plants.AAccording to Foreign Comaissar Molotov, a hundred and ten thousand of the inhabitants were taken to Germany and sold as slaves in public markets. Fifteen thousand Jews were slaughtered en masse; and)aeventy thousand people died of hunger 1 during the German occupation. It a1•a look.snow as though the Soviet Onion A had [harkov back for keeps, at least the place where ~~~~ Iharkov used to be. 'fb:u .... ut la r • ~ one more i:o ~ <'Y\4-v....ee / ~ J - c l imaxfta 1nks ll~tbe~ victorio'l!s offensive of the Red armies. J,JiAD - 5 top of the good news about Iharkov, Moscow announc-J a new offensive in the rich basin of the Donets River. The otjective ~-S~, r a w=~ zt tv, dl"5 a ~ ~ ~ Voros h ilovgrad. R has been under way three days and~ A ~A,.~~~ M:I already -"8<>"* ~~naac~ The Red ar■Y in the sout is now attacking on a line two hundred and seventy-five ■ ilea l ong) H: I 1.,11 c•bn from Le bed in northwest of Iharkov, d l tbs~•, to the Uiua River in the south. ll{he araiea advancing on V o r o s h ~ g ~ o ~ d thirty A to thirty-five kiloaeters i n ~ three days, and ha v e taken more than thirty inhabited places, including one i■portant town and railway atation:'7Thia new drive threatens the entire German position in the south, ~ as far as the bridgehead of the Iuban River. Red army shock troops are also attacking in north, aiming for Bryans and Spasdemensk. Another Aleutian Island is in our hands. American and Canadian troops have occupied a tiny spot on the map of the north Pacific called Segui... it h=,-at Twenty miles east of Kiska. akb ft:- toot ~ The landing on Segua was just the aaae as that ..{ on Iiaka - unopposed. Ho Japanese were there, no fighting, no less of Aaerican or Canadian lives~ Qnother base for the day when we start the big attack on Japan. £.QIFERENCE FOLL~AkEQTl!J!§ And that subject { {i-tting at Japan, uppermo ■ t at Quebec today. The President was in was conference at the Old Canadian citadel with his own Secretary of the Navy - also with Secretary Stimson 0 the lar Department, and Chinese Foreign Minister T.V.Soong. All we learn is that the attack on Japan will be launched at the saae time as the coming Quebec now teems with representatiYes of the United Rations - troa Britain, China, Australia and the U.S.A. As for Yr. Churchill today - he was mating a triuaphal tour of the city. Of this the people of old Quebec had only two hours' notice; but they all turned out to cheer the Prime Minister. Flags were fluttering over all shops and homes and public buildings. Many •tores were closed, and the gayly uniformed Mounties rode with Churchill as he drove through the streets of what aany consider the most picturesque old city of lorth Aaerica. Our forces and the Jape have again joined battle somewhere in the southwest Pacific. It looks like the final all-out a J tack on Salamaua in Bew Guinea. Australian and American arti l lery are bombarding the airdroae from the and, while Allied forces in the at7 1F are bombing the whole sector. Aaerican and Australian jungle troops on land have forged ahead two ■ ilea~ ~ hl'At~ and taken by storm strategic positions on the /\ s- ~ -~ ~ hills commanding the--;irliili. They are now only about A 5 " ~ ...... a ■ ile south o'l\~tbmwc::ILi Meanwhile, seven hundred and fifty ailes to the east, lulted--Sta:t:N -ch:ruN b7 air, land and sea w,...t are battling to get control of the central Soloaon•. •••, 11 u ■ ::tae ..Jap:n1I1e Tokyo claims that we have suffered a defeat • ._ h fro■ the •ipponese official ~ \Aat r&R-60a. A dispatc a 5 newa a g ency announce,t that a United States task force ~ I PACIF.1£ - 2 --- ~ -ii&' tried t~-.i:£a, a l anding on Iolombangara Island, and were driven o f f w ith µ._ hea:vy loss lJy I ha Ja:p~ I' Ioloabangara is the last stronghold that the Jape hold in the Rew Georgia group. The Do ■ei dispatch claima ~ that ~apanese/\batterie~ •• l&il sank two large American w..:tL f- • . . 6 ; · whereupon the rest of the fleet withdrew. This is not confirmed, our own high co m mand says nothing about it. Tokyo also clai■~ that a large · Japanese air force 8R our anchorage aade a terrific attack two days ago on ~ - t : : f t . _ ~ at Biloa, sinking two iransports, :A- damaging three, and destroying fourteen American planes. That report likewise is not confirmed or even mentioned by the Allied high command. ~UPTIOI One dispatch from the Pacific last week contained a misplaced comma, which caused me to atu■ble and give credit to the wrong man. You may recall that we had a story about Lieutenant Jack Iennedy, son of Zx-A■basaador Joe Iennedy, who was thrown into the water• when a Jap destroyer cut in half the P.T. boat co m manded by Lieutenant Iennedy. As the story read, I had the i ■pression that Lieutenant Iennedy had been saved by Machiniat•a Mate McMahon, a former cha■pion swimmer.' Instead of that, it is Lieutenant Jack Iennedy who used to be a cha■pion swimmer at Harvard, and it waa he who to w ed Machinist Mate McMahon three miles to shore. CBINA ----- Japanese air fleets are again attacking the heart of fighting China--Chungking. Not much damage, for they were intercepted by C inese fighter planes. But, the raid is important because it indicates that the Japs are beginning a desperate try to regain control of the skies over China--which would mean wresting centrol from the Fourteenth U.S. Air Force Along with this report comes the news that on Saturday Chenault' ■ flyers attacked Bankow, the great Chinese port on the Yangtze River · now occupied by the Japs. The attacking planes were U. S. Li erator bombers; and they shot down or damaged fifty-two Jap planes. IIEDITEBBAREAI lationa For five days now, the United•••*•• air fleets A A in the Mediterranean have been cutting to pieces the Italian railway syatei in ~ the south of the peninsula. A Yesterd a y they burned Salerno, the port at the Gu l f of the saae name, southeast ot ea. Already they had all but aaashed all the rail between the north and the south of e Italian boot. On Saturday they shot down Axia planes. In yesterday's, the fourth raid on Salerno, they beat~record /\ lasi interceptors. The railroad yards at Salerno were still burning last night when •••ese flee:te vi Wellington boabers of the Royal They dropped several of their four-ton• blockbjsters and innumerable smaller bombs, destroying and burning crowded on the siding. all the freight cars that were MEDITERRANEAN - 2 ------------- The Nazi high command has been forced to call upon its air force reserves to meet the mounting tempo of our raids on Italy. At Allied head o uarters it is the belief that the Germans are getting d es rate judging from the number of their interceptors that o~ airmen are now encountering. The Axis interceptor defense over Italy is infinitely stronger than it was over Sicily. Those thirty-t h ree Nazi planes that were shot down yesterday constitute the third serious defeat that the German fighter fleets have suffered in four days. In those four days, our side has bagged a grand total of a hundred and fourteen Axis planes. North of the great German city of Cologne on the Rhine is a smaller city called Leverkusen. It ia , i■portant to Hitler, highly important. A■ong-. ,t1o- munitions plants ~hs1c was a huge cheaical works, ■ aking poison gas. We've heard for some tiae that the Bazis were preparing a suppl) of the deadly stuff to use when they're in the last ditch. The town of Le•erkusen last night became the target for the latest raid of the Royal Air Force. The weather was thick, foggy, but a large fleet of British and Canadian bombers raced through it and dropped their deadly load on that chemical plant. ~ They J l more than a hundred thousand incendiaries ., . and a number of four thousand pounders, the blockbusters which the Canadians affectionately call •cookies.• They were over the place only half an hour but they e dr?pped a powerful tonnage. AIL!AL- 2 Leverkusen was virtually undefended, only a few night fighters, no searchlights,and a ck-ack fire quite feeble. •b a nob + • aw q • • 11 ~ ---■- ■- •• --~~~n~ pianes were crowaea w.t. But five bombers were lost, one of thea a Canadian. As the planes were flying back over the English Channel, the pilots could still see a glow of the fires they had lit in the Rhineland in spite of the thick weather. There were fires all over Leverkusen, and the chances are heavy that Hitler's chemical plant was hit. If so, huge clouds of war gas must have been released over the countryside, and the deadly fu■es becaae a weapon against t h ~ h 0 • I i ■ake the■, llRES ~everal coal mines that were seized b7 the goYernment ~ e r priYate control~ b:a:vk in the hands of the people who own thea. Secretar7 Ickes, as Coal Adainiatrator, returned the propert7 of fift7-three more coal coapanies, which had been taken over b7 the _ government last May when the first big coal strike broke out. le are not' told exactl7 how aan7 pit• in all were returned, but probably more than a hundred. The assistant to Secretary Ickes used the words •a Yer7, very sizeable tonnage.• Among the mines returned waa one of the largest in the waole · country, that of the Island Coal Company of Huntington, lest Virginia. A story fro ■ Washington says that this move leaves John L. Lewis in a quandary. When the aines were seized, -.he announced that hia United Mine Workers would work only for the government. Bis union soae tiae ago issued a warning that an7 time th e government gave up its control of the properties, it would end the agree ■ent under which the miners went back to work on July Twenty-Second. The best baseball atory of the year 80 far_ A eoaee fro ■ Hartford, eonnecticut. Aaong the people ot Hartford is a druggist named Saa Hyman, who ia forty-to years old. He locked up his store Sunday and went to the ball park where the Hartford club was to play the teaa froa Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. Wleb Saa reached the park, the b ll gaae waa about to be called off. None of Hartford's fiYe pitcher• r-- had showed up, and Manager Del Bissonette was about to forfeit the gaae. Into the club-house rushed Druggist Saa Byan. Saa used to be a fire-ball pitcher in the Gay Twenties. He worked in the Eastern teague for Allentown, Georgetown, Albany. Bissonnette recognized him and Sam offered to fill in until one of his pitchers arrived. The manager asked Sam whether he thought he could last two minutes. By that time at least one HartfQrd thrower -- BALL GAME - 2 ---- . -- ought to show up. Sam was sure that he cc~ d. So Bissonnette sent hia in to pitch, expecting to see hi■ knocked out of the ball park. Forty-four year old Saa got on the mound where the boys from lilkesbarre thought they were going to ( have nothing but base hits, triples and homers. The ,y- first inning passed without anybodf ge+.+,iag • score .. . - &1.1. The lilkesbarre player$ thought it was luct. In the second inning it was the same story. By that time the Wilkesbarre fellows began to worry. The «nd of it was that forty-four year old Sa■ ' not only lasted nine inning~, but won the ball gaae, eight to two. And there is . your happy ending.