I ----- r. I , T a t e n s f r om orth f rica te lls Amer · c n lan ' nce - United Stat r oo n o u bing for ard fi ve mil eat of El U u ettar . ~ encounter ' no o ~ osi 1 0 n. A . ar nt · o mmel is on th retreat on ce a 1n, pul l in . further north int o the Tu ni s ian p o cket .me i c n scout s r . ort he v enemy traffic m v ing no rthw rd from the area f cin El uetta r . A;At 4-attt -ftee- =tl!e :loo-k e.:f a. :f:~rtihc1 H . ~ 8 ~ -w-,v-,~,~~ This l and activity is the lates~ b11t) tt; h * c o m pari · on with the st upendous moves of battle in the sky. Thj""bu g e F ying Fortress raid on Naples, abo t hich we heard last ni ht41!' was followed by an att ac k th a t gia nt Liberator pla ns made a -14 same p ort. Then_llY~ Fortresses carried ainst tha A on with an a ssault a ainst airdromes in Sicily. And Liberators ~ f oll owe u the Fortresses once ain;(.~ bomb~Sicilian t ar et s . T h ~ reat air f eets followed one a nother, . . I ------ e in ,, ~ t he str ·:i ,. hu e b ors . T e ount· er c a t· vit · vas C i ' X od y by on f the most ~ c tacular sky e f the w a r - when Americ n i ,te attact ea a crea 1 et o f azi tr n ort pl ~ w - V V nes "' stron ly escorted by fi hte · . tr n :: orts w the sort ordinarily used for ca rry ing troo .s , but1 th y had no soldiers aboa~d t is time. They were he vi y lo ~ ·ed with oil.-- ~4&_~.--~. ~ . 7P This is an indication of the · stra 1~te th at Rommel is in for fuel to d rive his motorized e ui ment. The oil fleet o f the air was i~ g ing at low altitude when the 7f7 Americ · n fi g hters dived into it. One pi lot, Captain Darrell Welch of Midland, Texas, shot down three, and described his exploits in these words: "duck soup", ~ - And he aai•x added: "We sa w the plan es flying · 0 a hue formation abut r·fty fee t off the water. 1 It l oo ed like a sw arm of l ocus t s. I dived in and - kno ' d .. t , an ot thr e nes n four a s ." E i ht en of t e 1 azi 1 tr a ns p orts were shot do, n. P on erous a ircraft hit th w at r and ex p loded, th 1r c roe f oil blo in u v· ith hu e bursts of ~ am . 1 Thi rt een o the Nazi ighters e s orting the oil ~ - a ~ ~ ~ ~ f et w e sh t do w n 1- -A th i I' t y - on e in th a t s in g 1 e A- ,, /\ Ila~ battle 7f To 1 hich we c a n add other enP.my planes destroyed, in sundry other air blows of African hea dqu arters ives us this resum~:-Fifty-thr e enemy planes s hot d own d uring the ~ co u r s e of one day. We lGst es.=, twelve. A ~~/J-J .;-;;~viation news g ives us a delayed story A about a dr amatic r ai d sta ed by Liberator bombers last week. It was called - na suicide mission." Three p lanes went t for wh a t s r a ted as sure de truction for themse ves. The ,1ax•xszii•i pl a n c a lled for them to OJ' r a n .c c h pl r.. n • 11 by i t elf to a . sail in i cil y. H e vy anti - a ircra t a n d f i gh ter P osi ion a ~ e xpec ted, eno h to ov r w~m any sin le p ane .T: ' he u i c id e mis s ion , ho , v er , turned out to be nothin J f the sort. Today Pilot Lieute ant Norman Appold of &peka~~, ashin ton 1 to ld h ow his lone plane A. attc.cked~ bi completely by chemical factory.•The enemy was cau g ht - c ; ~ . ,, ,, surprise , He didn't have time to throw / / \ anything except a little light stuff be f ore we let our k■ &IJ salvo of bombs o in the middle of the chemical ~~~ buildings. When we climbed away~'•the explosions were terrific · . • Another iilot, Lieutenant Jerome Dufour of Los An eles, c~lifor nia, said: "They told us it was a suicide mission, but it turned o ut to be mur d er for the enemy. o o n " 1 t o d ~ . t t t h r i ,. l i t t 1 e f rth r ho J j s1 ee y r m ent b t n the Fr nch fac n ns o G ir u a eG 1 l e. This i s a British int rpr t tion laced upon the ostpo ne ment of DeGaulle's lon her ld ed tri p to North A fr ica to confer ith Giraud, a p os . pon ment at the suggestion of General isenho er. . ~ - Why this n:w urn of ev nts? Lo nd on ex la ins A th t Gener 1 DeGau l l Afr ieaa adm in ist.1 at ie1', • a b -111_ his Fight. iag F:Peaeh.A a e ■aaae~ that he an his Fighting French group should be iven complete authorit1 over the entire French fight a inst the Axis. DeGaulle was unyiel d i 1 g , and nd compro m ise was possible. H~n c e, General Eisenhower felt that the meeting of 1 h . fta1·ns ou d do ore harm than ood. the t w o riv a c ie The London d is p atch st at es th a t the p olicy of F I . the U nited S t V l n. t r m . ins unchanged in SU > ort "4 Gir u - he e ; ded C' t p er ona l ity to r al y Fr nch armed fore And Brit-in s y o k ay. a i rmed ' J l i e e H ~ t.Ae faet,iona of- ~oreiga 8ecrAery-t&w, a Anth o ny Eden during his recent confe r ences in Wa hin g ton>=-A-ttd &4n a reed that Gir ud, and not DeG ulle, should lead. From w it h in Fran c e w · e ha v e i or d th t h a s to do ith rel tions bet een ~e Germ ns and the Italian the two Axi~ partners. A~d this in turn concerns - Americ a ns and British in con uer d France. Some little while a o the azis ordered that all able-bodied A ericans and British sh uld be rounded up an d sent to Germ a ny . This wa s done in the territorie controlled by the : azis and Vichy. Some sections of southern Fr nee, how eve r , ar e. eld by the It li ~ ns, e nd they are · id to r u · d to h ad over Am ricans nd British 0 e. ort tion . , e ~ 0 U t they h v one so far a to ba k up th ir r us 1 wi h ~chine g uns. The story comes fromSwitz rl and, and it sta e. that in Italian occupiea territor3, the Vichy police, at the order of the Nazis, rounded up some four hundred n Americans and BritiQh and took them to the City of Grenoble f r shi p ment to Naziland. Italian occupation troops iritervened, and seized the pl ce wh re the men were held. They told the Vichy police that they would take charge of the Americans and British, and drove the Vichyites a way at the muzzles of machine uns. Then the Italians permitted the arrested men to go to their h ~ mes. Switz rland gives us the s~me sort of story about !tali ns and Jews, sayin that in the Italian occupied zone, Italian troo ps are protecting Jewish FRANCE 4 -------- - pe opl from the azis. Hitl r's Gestapo has been rounding u Jews all over Fr .. nce for transportation to the nam les hettos of e stern Europe. The Italiam, however, wi 1 not allow Jewish peo le in their section to be mole ted, and Switzerland tells of persecuted victims f l eeing to the Italians for protection. RUSSIA ------ In Russia, Sovie forc e s a ea tacking in the t6 w estern Ca uc asu s - wher~Nazis ~ are bac k ed a ainst the B ~ a k Sea. Red Ar my arti : lery is p reparing the way ~ bomba dm ent, concentrating on an import a nt •~ii•g■ k•ai bridgehead. Moscow says the cannonading is a pr lude to a new drive. The Russians say that the Germans are trying to tale the offensive on the Donets front - where the German counter-attack some weeks ago regained a good deal of ground. The Nazis are throwing in new divisions, but th t ussi a ns are holdin g firm, says Moscow. Berlin, on the other hand, claims the capture of a strategic brid~ehead on the Donets. r - g oo RUSSIA. 2 --- These ev nts w re on t h e southern front, but we have a Londono inion that a Nazi summ r offensive is more likely to be launched further north - not in the area of the Ukraine and the Caucasus, but in a drive a ainst Moscow. London military experts analyze the situation and think that Bitler may try a stroke against Moscow by launching forth from t _ e key railroad center - Orel. .Y.:: !1 ~ .T_ Seer tar of the Navy Frank K n o x e nted a s e u ~ icture f the subm P rine war tod a y. He indicrted t a the U-bo s are ste . ine u p their cam aign and m e shi s are bein SWl' . March,• he declared,"the situation was orse than in Februar:i- ~~, considerab ly /\ It's a s e rious situation ,• he summarized. W,.;..,rt.t- lHobody is complacent about it, o r hould be.~ The Secretary explained that the U-boats are doing most of their prowling in the central areas of the North Atlantic - out there in the middle where they are beyond reach of long range patrol planes,... 111ti ~ ai• based on land. He said the Nazis are using new tactics of submari warfare, but did not elucidate on that po~nt. He merely used the cry p tic phrase - l•••xta&tia■ nnew tactics." ~~ What about the defense? Seer tary (11oz made /\ e tion of the United Nations ir assaults a ainst the Nazi U-bo t bases on the coast of France - like the submarine ens at Lor·ent. Ho effective are these bombl·n s? ~ the h1· h 1 · b h h ~ exp 0s1ve~wos smas ing t e /\ pens and the U-boats in them? The Seer tary of the Navy ,, ,, said:- it's hard to tell. He thought the bombings were embarrassing at least to the German~H by disrupti ,.,.~ work~ activity around the U-boat bases. But it is difficult to determine whether the air blows were having any effect on the Battle of the' Atlantic. He wa more optimistic about another kind of weapon a g ainst the U-boat - destroyer escort craft. These are speedy boats, specially designed to extermina the wolves of the undersea, a nd . great dependence is being placed on them. Production of destroyer escort ?) f'_;. 4 ~ ~ - craft is on the upgrade. A.. We are turning them out at a r ~te ever mor~ rep . id - au~mentin~ 1our fleet to rotect he convoys that nunt dovn thew~ ves. B K HE D -------- Pr ~id nt oo evelt sc o re a triumph in the c en a e e e this a ternoon, when Bankhead o f Alabama v · rtua ly conceded th a t his bill cou d no be passed over the residential veto. The Sen a tor made this concession in the form of a motion to send the measure bac to the Agriculture Committee. That would prevent the bill and the veto from coming to a vote on the Senate floor. The Senate passed the Bankhead Bill almost unanimonsly - only two votes against it. The President vetoed it, and thenthe question was, could the necessary two-thirds majority be mustered to override the veto? It looked like a nip and tuck fight, but today it became appareht that a two-thirds majority co d not be had. Fifty-six votes were necessary, whi e an authoritative poll today showed that only forty could be obtained. G n i ~ an t uc · m e appare~ that a t w o-thirds cou ld were while an poll today showed that could This afternoon at his press conference, President Roosevelt stated that the only way the "'- de f eat Bankhea d forces could avoidAa=-ns■l\in a showdo n vote on the veto wa to send the bill back to the Committee - which would hold thin g s over. And late in the Senate today Senator Bankhead verified the presidential opinion by moving for recommitment. (He a ., BLACI MARK E T ------- At Newark, Hew Jersey today a federal indictment was anded down in a huge black market conspiracy. Seven corporations and eleven individuals were accused of selling ten million dollars worth of t illegal meat in four E&stern states -- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut:t'f The indictment charges them with selling the black market meat at prices ranging from twenty-eight to thirty-two cents a pound, compared with the ceiling price of twenty-three and a-half cents for the highest grade 7~~ of beef. ,..,,- ~tde an average over-charge of six and a half cents a pound -- or a gross profit of six I hundred and fifty thousand dollars.ea \~re• ailli•• eollt.Pe wePth 4eat ~ae,-~~-fV Price Administrator Prentiss Brown stated today that the indictment was in his words: •The biggest hammer blow we've b:d.. dealt ic, the black markets.• Apparently the violent earthqu a ke in the Sout h American republic of Chile today was not particularly disartrous in point of human life. The . earth tremors centered along the Chilean coast about three hundred miles north of the city of Santiago, and the heavy shaking of the earth was felt far and wide. In Santiago itself big buildings rocked and quaked, and aoae of them were left leaning -- slanting over to one side. One place is reported to be --•in ruins•. small town of a thousand people 4fY7 ~ , A UT O IE ------- To d ' a seen , stran e a n frightening, wa enacted on a bri at West Sprin field, Massachusetts. T : o autoaobiles ha d a c ol ision. The drivers eot out, and one a p pro ch ed the other silently. He reached into h is pocket, drew out his automobile teya, and handed these to the other. Still saying nothing, he a ked over to one side of the bridge, climbed onto the balustrade, and jumped. He plun g ed into the swift cold water of the Connecticut ·River, and was swept away a weird drama of suicide. Why? Wh tw as the meaning? It turns out that the victia was a war worker, just out of the hospital - where he had been because of injuries he suffered in a previous collision. At that time, driving his automobile, he ran into another c n r, an d wa badly hurt. He got o · t a! the~ospit a l ye terd a y, went driving tod a y - andJ ~ \ pre~l,f 8,,111~4kee. that, apparently, w s too much. Maybe heh ~ a i d "If I ever run in o anyone a g ain, I'll jump in th e river." J J .J.M.•t" Anyway, t h a t • what he did. - " I The flaming question of whet h er or not there's to he a General LaGuardia was taken to President Roosevelt today. There have been insistent rumors that New York's Mayor, the fiery Fiorello, is about to join the Army with t h ~ e n e r a l . This has aroused a good deal of discussion, particularly as it has to mayor of the 1\' Today at the was asked do with the question of who ould be the ~ ' nli.~ bi g town when tne general goe~''9 war5 A A • News lhite House~ 1 Conference President Roosevelt what about lia Honor, the general? The president replied that no plans have been made for - giving New York's mayor a commission in the Army. He said that LaGuardia wants active service, but there has been no decision about any capacity in which he mi 0 ht be taken in -- if at all. There have been reports connecting LaGuardia with North Africa, the former It lian colonies there, or even Italy itself. So one newspaperman asked the President: •Are you about to appoint a governor o f $ ~ . LA GUA R DIA - 2 ------- StottyT• The P resident laughed that one off,. -The idea t hat h e m i ht appoint LaGuardia Governor of Sicily, when t a t island falls to the United Nations. Yayor LaGuardia himself was in la.shington today. Be said he was there to see the food adainiatrator about what he called -- •a little more hamburger and spinach for the people of New York.• ~ ~.....,.,___.,_...,...,-,.,.__.u --.._( ..t.A. ... ... ~~ ,-e.a ••~ I ~-~•,vBe wa1 asked: •that about that new job of 1oura?• •that job?• •The one in the general's uniform.• Ne• York's pepper1 ■ a1or is seldom at a loss for a wise crack and he responded: •1•ve got a uniform of my own up in New York -- a street cleaner's uniform. That'• my own li t tle Army.• All of which ... Ut is true. As for becoming 4 general, LaGuardia . -. al~ead7 ,\ -tf-'-generalissimo of the Army of Str e et Cleaners. Q__J.._ "'-W .,,::9 ~ 'jtM to ~ ' . : - { ~ . 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