Here's invasi n word fro
~ngland:-
a headline
stati
g
that
A
erican
troops
at
a certa·n British
base have been informed that
~!l
have been selected
as the spearhead of the as ault.
They
have been
traine for this role intensively - pr cticing
a phibious operations, landings, street fighting,
am
open country infantry t ctics.
They have been
especially schooled to handle enemy
tants,
each
platoon having its bazooka experts. And one picture
,
que
detail informs us that the G.I.'s have been taught
how to dig in swiftly - so the tanks will roll
harmlessly over
thea.
C,
h
iis
ri
d
1:1
on n
ve
'
edge,
as
u
t of
the
la est
i
ima
on
o
a
·s
e
c
on
d
r
n
inv
2s
i
n -
the
B
rit·
uaran ine of
i
.
loma
I
waist
:a
s
a
no
n
ed
e
ter
d'
.
r
his
is
un iv e rs
11
b
in
ta
e
n
a
e
s
ure to
,~~1
leakr.ge
ofinformation,
a
the inv
a
sion
draw
s near.
fbe
Germ/appear
io
~e eoft~ifteed
\ftoi
ihie in
the eas•
• ' ..,,,~!.,!!
s
on t~t so dra tic ·
a
ste
p
as cutting off
the comaunic tions of foreign dip!omats
ould not be
~
taken
as a
mere
move
in
a
ar of nerves; a
s
a
mere piece
A
of sta e
play
tom
k
the
azis
une
a
y.
So
it mus
be
the real thing.
n
to
ay
the
Germans were
namin
t
e
month
a
y.
They
water
off
po
i
n~ out
t
at
May
is
ii/n•
British
co
as
t
.A
the
time
hen the
are
th
e
calmest -
the
wa
t
er
t
t
th
Second F
r
on
t
force will
have
to
t
r ve
rse
.
o>
it'\W&BiOR
The latest
is a
flash
from London stating
that the British
govern ■ ent
has suspended all travel
between
Britain and G'ork, in southern Ireland
another
precaution for the invasion.~---------
Toda
'
s
m ic
n ai
r
as
s
u t a ainst
Ber in
was
one
of
th
bi
e t
- th
e a
ir-mada consi
tin
of two
- -
n
oi~a
nd
t o t nty-five hundred
pa
nes, bombers
escorted
I\
by
fi hter
"
.
'
e
we
ther
wa
heavy,
the Gei·man
skies
thick
·
with
lauds,
nd this obscured the possibilities
for extensive
a
ir battles aloft.
Yet there was a wild
fifteen
minute combat ov
Berlin,
with two
hundred
German
figh~ers assailing
the
~'.1'fhli
Fortresses and
Liberators.
The
Nazi
pilots
pursued
ambush
tactics,
Berlin has sustained in a month. The Nazi capital
was
hit hard,
and
so
were
other
·
nearby
places
- aviation
plants ne r
erlin.
In
particular, th
e
big Hein el
bomber
product·
.
on
center, ·si
x
teen
miles
north of the
city.
There,
as
the
bombs burst,
smok
e
spiralled ten
thous
nd
fe
et int
o t
h
e
cloudy
sky.
e hear toni ht that on
of
the
oolittle
fliers who wer
in erned in
i
~
-qia is out o
th t
country
n
r
is in
ritain.
In the historic bombin
of
Tokyo, fifteen
of
the sixteen
1
nes fle
to China
-
one takin~ the shorter route to
Soviet
Siberia.
There the plane
landed,
and the cne
of five was
interned - the Soviets not bein
at war with Japan.
Hitherto,
we
bad supposed that the five were being
detained in Russia, but now the United
Press
has word
revealing that one
of
thea has
z■•tz•••
returned to the
.
American air service, and in Britain is now taking part
•
in
the
air
war
a
ainst Nazi Germany.
Be is Sergeant Theodore Labttn of ~nosba,
'isconsin,
who wa
s
an
engineer ~unner6n
t
he Tokyc raid.
Ho
or
hen he
left Russia
is not revealed -
a
secret.
TORPEDO
~-.-.-----
I
In
Lo
o
n
t, -
y,
.,.
...
Briti
h
prisoners of
ar
"
wer
de
or
e ,
an
t i s r
i
n
s
th r
velation
of
a
secret
British
_
on
,
- /Jnder-w
·
ter
cavalry,( torpedo
co bo s {
ound
f
ntastic,
doesn't
it?
~ell,
ia
peali~y
U ie
•"vrnthine
i,o
•01uieP
..t.
The secret wea
p
on is
a
torpedo,w-hic~ ridden
by
an under-w ter ere
f
t
o.
It's much
1
ike an
■ zlii•az
ordinary lar e tor edo,•
and
the tv.
1
0
riders
suits.
They sit astri:de the
4,
much
wear
diving
as if it
were
a horse.
And
they
direct
it in its under-water course to
the target - an anchored ship.
f(-
The under-water cowboys
~
ride
their,
pc . .
to the
side
of the
ship,~there
they
remove the
war-head
4-
the torpedo,••• the
part
~~
~oitainin
R
the ex
pl
osiv~
. - ~ a t t
ach
IC
to the
hulld}-
"tiu~-1:L..c.-
~~
~ - ~ ·
The ex
p
losion
is
g
overn~d
by
a time
mechanism,
which
gives
them an o
p
portunity
to
get a1ay
- still ridin
the
Th
s
e
r
t
wea
1
on
a
'
use
with
success
in
the
harbor
of
Palermo -
a
a
r
a,
o, bofor
th
e
con
ue
t of
Sicily.
cruiser;
One
of
t
he
co
wb
oy-tor
p
e
d
oes s
a
nk
an
C?;f.-t£d-~tlt,
another - a
aerch
a
nt
s h i p . '
four
Italian
under-water
cavalrymen
got away
from
the
explosi,.._
a
ll right -
but
they were
captured.
And·today,
while
prisoners
of
'
fJ
4111---j..'
war,
they
we
re awarded decorations in
L
ondon.-,~
~
'
sc ool h
a
been
est
b
ished
for
soldi
s
returnin
from
the
fi
htin
ine
-
a
school
to
teach
them
how
to fi
ht
the
enemy.
lfhed
IDB)
AAPW
u
enc
r-
to 'be
eo ■e1'.hins
J
ike heldiag a gre~nd class
t
t
t
f1Fill
to
eagle•
ADd
it'a
all
the more peradexiee.1
.
waea
yea htAX'
that
+,be
i1aepi111tiee
ef
t,ne
etaool
ca ■ e
iaoe
QeP ■ aa
p•ilrDAere.,
The fact is that during the recent lull in the
fighting, the boys
4n
the beachhea
d
battleline have••
becoae a
bit careless - reckless. So much so that the
Geraan
prisoners, upon bein brought in, have been
-
-
·
~J-_t
"
~ - r - t
aaking
remar
k
s
bout it. The captives of war, with a
,.
professional military attitude, b~ve been tellin the
American officers th
t
their troo
p
s are heedless and
ne
ligent
in com
t
-
taking too many chances with their
o n lives.
~~..b
~ f f ~ - ~
'ho b~a,
~
~ - • ~ e -
~::--.,
I
One
oart·culer in
t
an
ce of c
ar
elessness is
~
entionedA
~
th Germ
n
were decidedly stern in
Ntl"tl
di'3ap
p
rova
.
l~
lb•
wrlBGLUt
told 1fow An
Americ&.n
soldier• ◄
tb
a
p1::atul
in
hia
hei:at~
r n into three
Ger n infantrymen on
p
atrol. The
Am rican promptly
told
the ■
they
were
his
risoners. A
nd
they
a
reed.
They surrendered.
But the thing that aroused their
~ ~ e . . J ~ ~ . ~
'\
disapprobation was th is
:A
W:11+11
I
Jw
tl
eXre).
encounte:-iJ'
the three Germans - he did'nlt
even
dru
1t;
ti■
I
ol
&
F-..Qo.
--..:t...Q~ ~ -
And this, sai the risoners,
was
bad.A The American,
they
pointed
out, was exceedingly c
a
reless to do such
a thin
g
. O
f
course, they mi ht have been reminded that
they su ren ered
-
but that wasn't careless.
And
so,
be
ause
of
this
kind of
enemy criticism
a
class in inf
ntry
tactics
has
been establiahed,
and
soldier
r turning
from the beachh
ighting line
are going to school,
to
learn the
careful
way
of
fighting
{JJ
Yvtft--
t,.P,.__e
~
W'-o-h.
-b-c
Geraans
)
~
;J
.
,
-
·~~
~
~~-t.
..
Here is Vatican denial of a story broadcast by
the azis, a report t a t a time bob had been discovered
in the far famed Sistine Chapel in Rome.
The Bazis
say
the
time bob was the doing of the Communists, a plot t
blow up
t e historic chapel, the wal sand ceiling of
which are decorated
with
some
of the greatest asterpie ••
ot ·
baelangelo.
Rothing to
it,
says the Vatican
newspaper, which calls the bomb ruaor - pure invention.
JOSSIA
__
_,,_
...........
..-
In
'
th Soviet
h
e
f'
tured
B
lak
-
'
ma e
mo
s
b
T
nn
s o n s ~ '
h
e
he
ight
'
Bi
ade.
B
lakl
va
i
a
y
t
vas
0
ol,
hich
naval
b
_
e
t e
oviets are
a
au
ti
with
a
violent
series
of drives.
T
'
e
n
trap ed in a
narro
in
ock
·
,
nd are defen in
t
emselves
ey
occupy the sam
fortific
ions from
whic
the
us i n fou ht in th
ir de;ense of Sevastopol
in the
historic sie e t o years
o.
Then the" held the
city fort o hundred and fifty d
ys
a ainst the most
violent assaults
of
the German war machine - an epic of
stubborn heroism.
No
the situation is
reversed, the
Germ ns
•
re de ending the great
Sevastopol
fortifications,
h
Bussi
a
ns attacki
• The Nazis are
tr
ing to
hol
O
t
e
· ss
ult
lon
en
h
for
a
get-
a
ay
Dy
sea
-
a
Crimean
LJunkirk
~
~
~
---
-
~
_
;L~
~~
~
~ .
The latest is of particular concern to the
Russian
forces invading Poland. The Jewish underground
in
that co
ntry
has sent word
that
its e bers are now
waging
war
against Germany throughout Poland; using
e,ery •
apon
they
can get their hands on. And
they
tell
of auccesaful fights against the Nazis. This Jewish
resistance can be for idable, as was instanced in the
1iege
of the Ghetto in Warsaw - where the Jewish fighter•
tor
six weeks held out so etrongly that
the
Germana had
to use tanks and heavy artillery. to suppress the outbreak.
Aleo, at ttie City of Bialystok, the Jews barricaded
the■selves in the Ghetto and fought the German garrison
for a
month.
In In
1a,
~
tne
British are pushin
g
A
success ul
counter-of
ensive at Im
p
al.
aving
riven
the
J
ps
from t
e plain
in
front of
the
city, they
are thrusting
into the hilJs -
here
the ene~y
h s t en
refuge.
Fro•
ountba
ten's headquarters
we have the
word
-
•aatisfectory
progre s."
The Japs, havin
sustained
a reverse at Imphal,
are
redoub in
their efforts at that other fortress -
Iohi
a.
ord from Iobiaa is that all day long, enemy
troops surge
forward
against a stubborn defense - with
the action
growing
constantly more violent.
Te
la
st
fro
the
acific
is another list of
Japanese vesse
ls
sent to th
bottom
by
m
e
ric
a
n subm
fifteen
more - with the N~vy this afternoon lis ing
eleven
c
r
o
vessels, three tanker
and an auxiliary
repair ship.
In the air, we have
ora of new bombing assaults
hur ed at the Jape in the Caroline Islands.
~,~~-tl.t~
And now
-
the Kuriles·rSecretary of the
avy
Frank nox today ma e
~
t h a t ~ e f
i ~ •
main islands of Ja
p
an.
a significant statement concerning
which
extends
southward to the
The Secretary intimated that the
bombin
of the
uriles,
which
has been
going
on day
a
ter
is
day,
a
p
relude to
an
inva ion of tho•~ islands.
He said
"
he
cou
d
n't t
e
l
l
when, but
eventu 1
y
meric n
orces
will ore to
seize
the
luriles, an
d
c
ap
tur
e
th
e
m
one
after anot er -
ta
k
in
e
th
a
t is
l
n
d
road to Japan.
WRL
BARBOR
~
~
~~
A-
Rb•
~11~i~•••
ashington
announcuf
-·~·
.........
~
~
r
MUN ~•
\ae
United.
-it
a+rw e~
Admiral Thomas
C.
iA,.~•:t-e-.Ja.~
Bart;\•11•
IIH hH
9"
a [1a-;17n of compelling interest.
The
foraer
Co■mander
of the United States Asiatic fleet
was sent to gather eYidence concerning the Japanese
attack on Pearl Barbor-· eYidence to be uaed in the
!ut•re court•artials of our Pearl Barbor Commanders,
Adairal
Ii■mel
and General Short. Adairal Bart was
if.a
gi•••
the task by1'Secretary of the lav;__,12••
Je•ICI,
and
in Hawaii he gathered a great
■ass
of teetiaony concernin
'£r
,,.._.,Wif
~ ~
A.Pearl &Jrbor
1
on~Deceaber Seventh.
In the London Bouse of Commons there was a discus-
sion today
of
the British pamphlet issue
d
to American
troops, •h~cb has caused so much discussion and dispute.
The
pa
·
phlet in question printed a statement that in
the United States fifty million dollars would be spent
to defeat President Roosevelt, if be should run for a
-
fourth tera.
And today, in the C~amons a Conservative
M. P.
referred to it as the kind of propaganda that
waa
daaaging
to British-Aaerican relations.
To this
a
reply was given bJ Minister of Informati
Brendan Bracken, who said the outcr7 against the
doing of the
Hearst
press in the Unit~d
p ~ ~ ~ F A . \
..
~"l-,V~.,
States.
exp
ained that the
news item
bad been
/\
selected
by
British
newspaper
editors not controlled
the official Ministry of Infor
·
mat ion.
rt was they
inserted the statement about the possible spending o
fifty million dollars to defeat
a
fourth
te~a.
A
d 7.ow he quejion
1/
matio
?
Bren~ Bra,en
-
bet dil
ttijy
g1
th~t
tod/y state{ ••/..ry f.ord
There
is
to
be
no le
islation to
draft
4.ra
into
1
or
battalions. Today the
ilitary Affairs
Co aittee
of
the
House of
R
presentatives killed the
Work Battalion
Bill, which would
have
conscri ted
4-F's
and put them to
work
on
war production
jobs.
The
attitude
of
the
Committee
was that no new legislation
for the re u~ation of manpower is needed right now -
the
laws
already on the books bing sufficient, in the
Co ■■ ittee's
opinion.
It looks as if the reaaining prosecution against
Charlie Chaplin aight be dropped. Thia possibility was
indicated today by United States Attorney Charles H.Carr,
who said he was - undecided. The great coaedian of
yesteryear was, as we know, acquitted on an indictment
ender the Mann Act, and the de•elopaenta in the other
ca••
against
hi• have been unfavorable to the prosecution.
lk■xt■t ■zalx••••lxkaaxtkz■aax■•
The Director of the California State
Far ■
Production Council is on his way to Mexico with a
request for •aore Mexican farm workers.•
Reports are
that this year California ia scheduled to get only ninety
thousand additional workers from below the Rio Grande,
and the State wants
■ ore,
for the urgent task of
har•eating the crops.
Out
at th
ed
e
of the D kota
bad
l
ands,
they've
solved
the
myste
Y
o
th
ji
t
terbu coal in the Wild
Plum school.
The
mysterious
doin
.7._Q.11
a
hoax.
,ho
did
the
hoaxin
?
Pupils
of
the school.
Four, and
pos~ibly
six, are involved - which is a large proportion,
when
you
consider the
fact
that the
ild
Plum
school
has a
total of nine
pupils.
ts_cf--{~..1
~
J-~-+-----
It wa
'
a
caseol)
tlla;lt.r
having some fun
by
fooling the teacher. She is Pauline Rebel, and she
certainly was mystified when the coal started leaping
out of the scuttle - apparently.
The
jumping coal
was a
trick
arran ed
by
the pupils,
~ho
a.,.J
chunks of fuel.
A-lihey
also
perpe
really tossed the
ated
of
a
mysterious mas ed man appearing at
the tomfoolery
-~
the door.
I\
The key
to
t
h
e
hole
thing is the
fact
th t the
teacher,
rs.
Rebel,
is ne'rsi
hted.
She wears
asses,
but
he
r
s ec
s
r
e
not
near
y
stro
g
enou
h,
A
couple
aoAX -
----
of telescopes
wou
l
d b
about
the
righ thing
.
So
the
dear chi aren, with
a
l
l
thats eet
innocence of youth,
took
a
vanta e of teacher's
eyesi
ht,
and cooed up
a
set
of
illusions to fool her.
~~
la&sk
explain
the
mystery of the
leaping
coal
---~----
at the
ild
Plum
school, which bad the local population
gaping with wonder - a spooky
sensation
among
the farmer•
at the edge
nf the
Da
..
ota bad
lands.