'T T • _iiO’-lDAY. OCTORfP 19. 19A2. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Everybody in North America' tonight wants to know what is happening on Guadalcanal. t^s-t^rheathe outcome of the battle still ts— y/)^' f-- — the balance! There is a detailed communique from the A Navy, but it does nit say much that is definite.lt does tell us that no recent troop activity has been reported froa Guadalcanal nor any new enemy landing. A strong force oi* enemy warships, transports and cargo ships is f&t concentrated in the watersjaround Bhortland Island^ ir two hundred and twenty-five miles northwest of Guadalcanal. It has been repeatedly bombed by Allied heavy bombers. ^L^tf^ear from General MacArthur. V' This means that they are army bombers, presumably lead - ? flying fortresses. Apparently trfeey-^-a-v-e-b-ee n operating out of New Guinea,** for, that is the dateline of the report. But p|^G Navy report makes it clear that the \ Japs now have cpTiSS a strong concentration of troops, aircraft and artillery on the northwest part of Guadalcanal, west of Henderson Field, which is the os it ion we hold there. American warships have been laying down a heavy barrage on those Jap positions. Meanwhile American airmen have been pounding a* enemy ship and shore concentrations. Thirty-three more enemy planes have been destroyed , e r since yesterday. raises the total number of Jap in the Solo.one to three hundred and orty. Early yesterday afternoon, about t-.venty Jap bombers. escorted by twenty Zero fighters, attacked LEAD - 3 ll - V *------- * the United position on Guadalcanal. A flock A '' of our o?rn Vildcats v/ent into the air to intercept them, shot down eifht bombers and eleven Zeros, losing only two of our own fighters. But all this bagging of enemy planes and bombarding of enemy positions cannot obliterate the fact that our marines and soldiers on Guadalcanal are in critical position. There is every A indication that the enemy is preparing for a heavy ) VVc/VV mass attack. It is ominous that no mention is made of K our planes attacking from Henderson Field, which is the Import-w^ air base on Guadalcana-L. xshe s f iven rise to the widely expressed fear that the Japs may have nut th^ airfield out of commission. A sf-(rcsi4_ But at least it appears that the enemy does not yet have control oi the sec. s around Guadalcanal. ALEUTIANS FOLLOW LEAD The nev. s j.ro.;i t..e Aleutians is a little better. But there again we have nothing much to talk about American bombers are shuttling back and forth between their base and Kiska, bombing and strafing. They dropped fifteen tons of bombs on Kiska last Saturday. They report that anti-aircraft opposition was light and no enemy aircraft were seen whatsoever. Here a story of the adventures of two American officers, auventures which a reporter compares to the travels of Homers Ulysses. William Lloyd Osborne of Los Angeles, a captain of the U.S.Infantry, was serving with fehfc a gilipino unit on Bataan Peninsula. When the Japs took Bataan, he joined up with a Filipino lieutenant and two privates and hiked to Manila Bay. There they got a rowboat and after rowing for eighteen hours, they reached a place of refuge near the Taal Volcano. The Filioinos went to a native village, and Captain Osborne made his way south. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Damon J. Cause of Winder, Georgia, e flyer in the Air Corps, had a narrow : shave in another part of Bataan. He was helping to move supplies up to the front lines, not knowing that the Japs had broken through. realize it ODYSSEY - ? untij. he rr^n into a Jap armored truck on a bridge. Then he hid in the riverbed all that night and the next day. The Jap soldiers were often within a few feet of him, washing their clothes. As he was trying to reach the coast, Lieutenant Cause was captured by three^ 's-o-ld^ter's^ They stripped him and pushed him into a prison camp tfU . G^fitai-nthree hundred other Americans. But he A broke away, reached the beach and swam to an anchored boat, diving frequently as he swam to escape rifle fire. In a few hours, he h^d rowed all the way to (2vuA -6U ^2cf- ~tzUnX Corre: idor. boat ha iort^ machine gune bullet* A in it. When Corregidor fell, Lieutenant Cause commandeered a banca, 9 native c o n o e. A torm blew s illed him out, and he struggled twyshore^ i? wt^r-ed v ys A ‘ • I to the mountains ^an his fearerfeel^-towA-a -hiding- ^ f \y/) in the hills, an^ restf^ for up ODYSSEY _ 7 O _Q g "fie found another banea and fot to an unidentified island. /? /v A A Tw^7 /' The natives told him there was another American officer on the island, but it was all of a month before he .met /v him. ThO^"other American officer turned out to be Captain Osborne ^ yy\^ - A , iu2^ I About the middle of July, the two t-h-em planned threir escape. They found an old native-built > motor boat with sxSiRixRi an obsojete D<UUel engine^ loaded it with all the - ood it cou d co 7 ry and r^—my an emergency sail. This took them a A A month. It was August Fifteenth when they started south, with American flap flying from the mast. / Fortunately, Flyer Lieutenant Cause had studied navigation at Randolph Field. The only equipment he had was a National Geography Society map and a small compass. They had to stop often at small isirnos to and fto patch their sails.^they were all obtain water YSSFY - 4 the time plugging Leaks in the rotten hull of the boat and A spreading. Also, the ancient motor ha^ to be nursed all =the time^ A In mid-September, they ran into a two-day typhoon. (3ne entry in Cause’s log book^ IH have seen everything now in the way of bad weather.” A Another entry reads:- nearly hit a reef. When the fuel ran low, they poured coconut oil into the tanks. made the wheezy old motor even more feeble, $>ut kept ^ going. At one time they* A / passed two Japanesj^cruisers escorting troop KS7 ,-A- 'A'* , transports. Another time they were about to land on an A island when they saw a Japanese flap flyinp./^. - , A 1o; entry of October third reads:- "Precisely at two— twenty this afternoon, a twin engined Japanese olane circled and machine punned us for fifteen minutes. Mo material dam?re done." 0 DYSISEY - 5 On October Eleventh, after a voyage of almost two months, they n — r n^i* Athe Australian coast and A /S encountered a motor launch bearing an Australian army officer and several men. Lieutenant Cause, with that Geographical. Society map and a small compass, had navigated a course which A them within fifteen miles j e c t ^ v e . l * nnJLJ- A ^ und , There is a seri-comic ending to the story. By the time Captain Osborne and Lieutenant Cause 1 reached Australia, they were most heartily sick of lookin? at each other and they confessed that they hadn’t spoken for three days. RUSSIA Several weeks have passed since Hitler announced that he was raising the seige of Stalingrad. S^today we hear that Nazi troops have captured another block the . . in ikxfc heart of the city. It was a block consisting A A aJ mostly of debris and broken down buildings, ‘.^The news /T* comes from Moscow* -4X. However, the Red spokesmAji .the Nazis had to pay X / dearly for their slight gains. Marshal Timoshenko has moved in fresh troops to relieve the defenders. ... mi no— The latest Nazi assault £n Stalingrad has been going i»p on for six days now. ^From the Nazi high command communique iit sounds as though the Germans have command of the air in and around Stalingrad .ag^tu They are hammering the Russian supply lines east of the Volga River and claim to have destroyed no fewer than eleven trains. RAIDS Goerin^1s n: . iers are stepping up their tempt over Brit^ain^J Nothing too serious as yet; but there were air attacks yesterday which seem to presage more to come. Some twenty people were killed, trains and civilians were machine gunned, and there were three short alerts in London. Two raiders were shot down. The principal reason the affair is worth mentioning is that it is the first on such a scale in quite a while. Possibly the beginning of a new aerial c ampaign. SUBMARINES Bad news about enemy submarines. They are going to be more troublesome than ever this winter. The authority for this is Rear Admiral Land, Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission. That U-boats will do much more damage the coming winter, because the bad weather and longer nights will give them concealment is Admiral Land’s belief. PLANED V/e have been hearing a good many sanguine prophecies that it would not be long before the United Nations had command of the air. Those are false ^ O — ho?es#^anh it the Office of War Information.th^i (L The O.W.I. has been preparing report 4 -tuJ: for nearly four weeks, report contains these / /V words:- "In the months to come, battles may be lost and crushing de'.eats may be suftered. As our delens® tVf activity grows, casualties will increase and the losses in aircraft will rise with the speed of our participation.w Andy it continued:- "The best the public can expect and the best it will get is that on an average the equipment of the Allied forces may be superior to the equipment of the enemy. Director Elmer Davis comments ironically that the United States has been paying with f defeat PLANES bloou ±01 ibs determined blindness towards air pov/er during peace. He remarks thatwthe Navy went to war with considerable Quantities of obsolescent planes and CruML / s / j ^ 'ti^e ■ - ~ r ‘ A A most disastrous factor of the early days of the Pacific suffered losses which have been avoided. battle was the complete lack of air raid warning systems. ThdjPhiltopine system v^as disrupted by fifth column arents before it had even begun to function. The Army aircraft score in the Pacific is better than the enemy’s. But, it could have been improved if the services had been more on the alert for Japanese treachery or had more accurately lorecast the performance of Japanese aircraft^” & t~\S There is one consoling sentence in which the W.I. says that the United States medium and light bombers are the best in the world. The far famed PL.A3FS - ? C asij ^ ~bv-kJl kerocoovc s, on the other hand, are outclassed by the A British ISpitiire and the German ivlesserschmitt and Focke-Wulf One Ninety. Some people have said that our planes are the best in the v/orld. Others have k ± l claimed that the British, Gprraan and Japanese are far superior. The truth, declares Elmer Davis, lies in between. The report continues with a detailed analysis of the merits and demerits of all types of planes used ( 7 \ AT \ American A f orces Hwrt-e r^H^n^ COCHH/NE There is quit^ a to-do in Conrress over the new heac of the Navy's Bureau of Ships. Secretary Knox on Saturday announced that Captain Edward Cochrane had been appointed to succeed Pear Admiral Alexander Van Keuren. This par^ic^rlarl^ displeasing to the Senate Committee that has been investigating the war effort. The Senators declare that the appointment of Captain Cochrane was no change at all. It means a 4 continuation of the policies which that Senate Committee: has O'enly condemned. Cochrane, say the Senators, has been in the Bureau right along and the change does not change the source of the trouble. He will cto—wira predecessors A prohibition . The Drys in Congress are making use of the military laws, and it looks as though they will win — in the Senate at Least. This on the word of Majority Leader Barkley. A dry amendment has been offered to the bill drafting lads of nineteen and eighteen. It would forbid the selling or drinking of liquor, beer or win in any district around a military or naval post. And Senator Barkley says it probably will be adopted if it gets to a roll call vote. Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma is the author of the amendment. He says he is Ooing to fight for it with every power at his command. kacen ? An alarm came to Chicago police headquarters that a money-lending office was being held up. A sauad of Mayor Kelly’s harness bulls arrived on the spot and, sure enough, found the robber at work. Nor would he come quietly as prisoners caught flat usually do. In fact, the Windy City gendarmes had to beat him unconscious before he would take their advice. He turned out to be a deserter from the Army, one Irwin Kadens, and the Federal Bureau of Investigcticn reports that he is one of the most dangerous cri'ir-ls in the country. According to the Chicago police, Kadens was not at all bashful about his aiiedxRd alleged eIonise. Indeed, they say he has now confessed to more than fifty robberies, one a mail truck, also a kidna-ping at Detroit. He told the police he had been at C?mo Gr nt, ockfori, Illinois. After a row with a Major he eserted and decided to do away with himself -- setting kadens - ? hi? thirty-third birthday as the date. But first he resolved to have a high and violent time and leave his mark behind him. Today he is behind the bars and marks are on him. There was comedy at Chicago today, connected with the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Billing. You may remember her, she got considerable Page One space once upon a time for her Communist hunting activities^ S4^'~tHrb';b44T'hed-^&;, book called ~ nThe Red Network"^-!^ which £L-r^i/V^> _ iii^ludtrct^quite a number of high federal officials ^ 4 - including the President. Mrs. Roosevelt,.was also qjw pT,i?fninpn^ -^n— <p*~UU, i) dbu^ Mrs. Billing is in hot water, charged by Uncle Bam with conspiracy tnd sedition. The government wanted her removed from Chicago to Washingon for trial. The federal court in Chicago grantee the order, but Mrs. Billing appealed to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Before the court had time to act Mrs. Billing, who is ouite a good looking woman, called all the reporters. She then burst into song. The subject of the song was V/iiliam ^over ,;tal°ney» Special Assistant Attorney General,fca whom the Department of Justice sent to Wasnington specially id ■bG^6=fc( the indictment Mrs. Dilling. The other day, a A a large delegation of Chicago women appeared in court to back up Mrs. Dilling. Special Assistant Attorney 4aloney, with more presence of mind than delicacy, asced them why they weren’t at home with their washboards. The lyrics that Mrs\ Dilling had composed, she s8n> to the tune of "Kaaty", snd one refrain went A like this: "Ba -ba-baloney, A You’re a lit tie*guy who is easy to abhor, When you insu t us, come in our a iochen, And we will m*op you up just like we do the floor.” "''O' * ^ (s dinf. -to-fc^st'^toryr but ?ne. tvtf ~d, 1 a w;ll-rM-rTt -to ynu •drat^r. LTP.1942.10.19.pdf LTP.1942.10.19ii real.pdf