MARSHALL C.LI.-vl. !i< ii tfe-wv ! . k I: - .i. it—important^news from Europe today I records the arrival in London of General George Mars Chief of Sta^f of Uncle Sam^s Arniy.l He was accompanied by Harry Hopkins in his capacity as Administrator of cc<3^ *« \ Lend-Lease ^ A Chairman of the American Section of the British-American Munitions Assignment / ' 1 Beard. the agency ^b-h-eF% controls the disposition ii " I of war materials between our two countries. Marshall and Hopkins were flown across the Atlantic secretly in i A >' an American bombe^ with a small staff of aides and experts. Their first official conference on the other side was with Prime Minister V/inston Churchill, with - i ii whom they talked for two hours. About what? The answer ;[ A as General Marshall put it himself:- ”a highly confidential matter with which the i President entrusted us." As he left Ten Dawning Street, ^^Marshall told MARSHALL - 2 reporters that, i_SUQTE *We want to expand to Europe.** Which caused newsmen to remember that only a few weeks ago, the Chief of Staff issued a statement to the effect that it*s highly necessary for us to prepare for a major offensive against the Axis at the earliest possible moment. Along with the news of Genral Marshall’s visit to London, comes the information that our A.E.F. in Northern Ireland have been going through a course in commando tactics, the hit-and-run forays with which the British commandos have been harassing the Germans at various points along Hitler's invasion coasts. It was implied that today's meeting with Prime Minister Churchill will be followed by a series of hurried conferences elsewhere, particularly in Cairo. From this and other reports, one gathers that the Allies are preparing to increase those !l i MARSHALL - 3 hit-and-run raids, increase them to where they will compel Hitler to keep strong forces along the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland and Norway. Which in turn, will be of help to the Soviet armies, because it will prevent the Nazi Fuehrer from hurling his full strength against the Ukraine and the Caucasus. ‘\n 'ff *1 I beitish _ baids A late dispatch from London reports that the Royal Air Force has been raiding over occupied France. It was one of the largest raids ever made from Britain Correspondents xtxiax stationed on the southeast coast heard the noise of the planes and inferred from that that the number of them sent against the invasion coas was comparable to the huge armadas that Germany sent ------------- over England in Nineteen Forty. \^The roar of the motors could be heard for half an hour. And it is believed that one of the biggest daylight attacks of the whole war was being delivered A significant report from the Air Ministry says the E.A.F. fighter planes encountered almost no | resistance and saw but few of Hitler's air force. The inference from that is. that the Nazis have been detaching most of their planes for service in Russia and the Middle East. ■>*w» L ll PUFGIA Out of Russ ita 1 es ^rrm^ tonight. For one y thing, thejooviet high command reports that the Red Army has caused casualties to the number of five hundred and thirty-seven thousand among the Nazis in the last two months of winter war^^^On top of that report from Kuibyshev, the Soviet armies have smashed the ' a German lines in i^hite Russia and are now only a few miles from the old Polish border.^^^Reports that reach Moscow indicate that the border of White Russia has been crossed at several points and fighting still is under wary. If that is accurate f. h j n V ^ w g 11 T* p I* li M r g riTF!r^j^"i^- would mean that the Red ^ V 1 forces have pushed th^ Nazis back two hundred and eighty? n miles from Moscow, erft& tirat -in ■<;--ri^rgi-o-e^irqr«-(>#-4,h6-. »Q c As for the Ukraine, Washington has received RUSSIA - 2 word that Stalin has concentrated a hundred and I tv/enty-two divisions of nev/ troops to cope with the Nazi offensive that Hitler promised for June. The ^ British have information that the JJ^zis, for their part, have massed a hundred divisions, somewhere between one million and one million and a half men, for the drive through the Ukraine.' The British claim that Hitler has been forced to make heavy demands upon the Rumanians, Italians, Hungarians, Finns and even Bulgarians to reinforce his army in Russia. Yesterday we heard an admission by the Nazis that the Reds had broken through ot^the northern Leningrad front. ThejSoviet government newspaper today explains that this was made possible when the Spring thaw melted the fortifications which the Germans had built out of ic'c'V An^ it adds that at one point the Russians found fifteen hundred dead Germans in i A t- P V it St i RUSSIA - ? melted ice. Add to all this is a statement by Admiral Standley, our Ambassador to Moscow. American promises met to Russia will have been fullj^by the end of April, says the Admiral Ambassador. And he adds the statement that "Russia is the vital front and America will do everything to overcome the obstacles to supplying the Soviet Army.’ We are all partners and must see this conflict through to the en^ At the same time, Hopkins in London announced A that supplies to Russia moving rapidly. f 0 LIBYA The campaign in Libya has come to life in the last f . One sign of this is the growing frequency and ferocity of the attacks of German bombers ta . An American correspondent cv^ .................. ^ iS-Lanri —nreported that while he was writing, the bombs were falling with iyrj’Xbjr^ regularity for the ^ /( third time that day. Nazi planes have been coming over day after day in spite o‘f a heavy loss in aircraft. The indications are that the Nazis are trying to break down civilian morale in Malta,‘ but^ the report adds that they have not succeeded. Meanwhile, the Germans have been rushing convoys across the Mediterranean to Libya. The Royal Air Force reports increased aerial activity throughout the entire war theatre of the Middle East^ bombing attacks on Alexandria. LIBYA - 2 The Borne radio broadcast a claim that British forces in the desert have retreated from some of their advance positions. re^eBtudy iE di^grent by ^hG Borlin-radioi—Tho Briii-eh high eeBHiEn^-hag- ^8 cwy ilaout %^ig. Simultaneous with these reports /cUwwt Libya, ^ A come indications that Hitler may be plannin£ the long anticipated attack on Cyprus. Invasion barges have been A reaching Crete and other islands of the Aegean Sea in large numbers. Also, there have been heavy re info^ceaents of Geraan planes in Crete, ai 1 bu 1 ir A southern Greece. There is a report that the Nazis have two parachute battalions ‘in Crete, under bved | a veteran commander of parachute troops. AddiA.together, these bits of news from various no i ints in the l/iddle East point to the possibility that | f Hitler is planning a pincers move on the British Imperial! LIBYA - 3 forces there, one pincer being an offensive through north Africa, th^ other^on Cyprus and the Syrian mainland. ‘Pti-i'C would throw upon the Army of the X Middle East the principal shock and burden of sustaining the Nazi Spring offensive aimed at the oil fields of Iraq and Iran, Mesopotamia and Persia. lAj"Tta<a pJ2<i^ Jlsz-etJUL 'ttsA Q-l-flQ ipir^n nn^ India to Synchronize with A ' the Japanese attack from the East. INDIA j The news from India today is none too optimistic, N though there^ one ray of sunshine. A Early today, the word from New Delhi was that Sir Stafford Cripps had sent the British War Cabinet in London the reply of the Working Committee of the All-India Congress, a reply that means No. In other words, his mission had a failurej^ barring A ^ ^ something unexpected at the eleventh ho^urj *Thai . •nncQ-i unexpected development now appecrs^^poss ible . There was a report around New Delhi today that the Indian leaders, with the help of President Roosevelt’s envoy, Louis Johnson, have worked out ‘a formula which they hope will be acceptable to the Churchill Cabinet. a. A formula that has been accepted by the leaders of the All-India Congress as well a^s by^Cripps. lieanwhile, the Nazi radio was broadcasting a Tokyo claim that the Japanese had sunk twenty Allied si INDI-^ - ? ships in the Indian Ocean and that radio messages for help were being overheard constantly. The newspapers in Tokyo are prophesying a big naval battle between the British and Japanese fleets in the Indian Ocean, a naval battle that might take place at any moment. AUSTRALIA The word from General MacArthur*s headquarter today is that the air forces of the United States and Australia now have an eight-to-one advantage over the Japanese. \J?nofficial reports credit them with having destroyed mone than a hundred Japanese planes in the last few days. The Japanese claim to have occupied Lorangu on the island of Maus in the Admiralty group, some hundred and seventy miles off the north coast of New Guinea.\The Australians evacuated the island some time ago, and applied the scorched earth policy to such effect that the Japanese, expecting to find an airdrome there, found nothing but burned installations. ^ fc However, Prime Minister Curtin of Australia declares I; there** no confirmation of the report that the Japanese A have Lorangu. If true, it means that the enemy are established in a defensive arc north of Australia. PHILIPPINES General Wainwright and his tiny army in the Philippines are being pounded more and more fiercely. The Jap commander, General Yamashita, has thrown more and more fresh troops into the drive, and waves of heavy bombers have been pounding General Wainwright’s bases on the southern tip of the Batan Peninsula through which supplies are fed to him from Corregidor. Early today\ the War Department announced that the American and jAlipino armies had withdrawn This in order to rectify theXlines in Batan already penetrated by the Japanese. Tn^ Japs were able to \\ push our little army back because Yamashita had received such heavy reinforcements. \ Tonight’s communique from the War Department, just in, tells of still more fresh battalions of Japs thrown into the battle. J In addition to having to fight off the ) to a new line, a defense ^sition previously prepared. P li ifi fOf n In PHILIPPINES - 2 Japanese shock troops, the Americans and Filipinos are being bombed and machine-gunned by dive bombers and attacking aircraft. Waves of shock troops have been attacking almost continuously without regard to casualties. The Japanese have no regard for life. The American and Filipino troops, including naval and marine contingents, have stubbornly resisted every attack. J }V JAP EEPORT An interesting document came to light in V’ashington today, brought into the limelight by a sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Immigration. Sc long ago as Ninetween Twenty-Four, the Department of A Labor issued a report on the Japanese in Hawaii. That report of Nineteen Twenty-Four, used these words:- "When this Japanese race has reached the point for action, the cloud will break and America will wake up to the fact that it has developed within its territory a racey iiu ’ujcii whose maintenance of Asiatic ideals and solidarity^ will sweep everything American from the islands. f The report was made by a commission which had been investigating a series of racial strikes that had been holding up the agriculture in th^islands for six months. Seventeen years ago that Commission pointed out that the Japanese aliens systematically JAP REPORT - 2 made their homes and established their communities near vital power plants, forts and harbor entrances. "i^^he Japanese^ dominat^ stores, restaurants, taxicabs. /V A automobiles and virtually’every strategic facility and service the islands. All tli^li^in Nineteen Twenty-FourJ of it allowed to become public. By nh iige orderZJ^^ ’fhe State Department,^. FLOOD Here*s the first of this year’s flood stories It comes from Connecticut. The Connecticut River is stage some time tomorrow morning. That’s the warning from Uncle Sam’s Weather Bureau. The warning didn’t say when the crest of the flood may be expected. already swollen and may be expected to be above flood y FASHIONS The most courageous thing the V/ar Production Board has yet attemnted is an order issued today. It*s an order that no husbands, not even A 1 of husbands, would have dared. For it tells women how they must not make their clothes. Su> irst. vythat catches One of the firs-^ the rT.ir&^4lij to wear slips with dresses that A are not transparent. One wonders just what is going to happen to the woman who doesn’t obey that part of the order. "iVill she be pounced upon by Gendarmerie ^ ^ /) A have the slip torn off her^ y-i" wWT- h o fj s ggTr, cn i ij -;rTi u thingj forbidden ^ pleated ^ A skirts, French cuffs on sleeves, leg-o-mutton sleeves, patch pockets, wide skirts, long full skirts The ladies must not wear wool evening wraps or wool lj^[^j_Q£rg Qp sleeves cut on the bias, whatever that means* 1 FASHIONS - ? Dress lengths are to be frozen in the prevailing fashion of today, that is they^» not to be any longer. Evidently it *s up to the individual woman whether she wants to make them shorter or not. Then here*s an order that*s rather alarming. If you wear slacks l^.dies, you miasi: may not wear belts. The ’i'.P.B. does not explain how you*re to keep^t:hre^~^ggs%s Looking a bit further, we find the n same rule applying to skirts: No matching or contrasting belts. No suit skirts be longer than twenty-eight ' inches. Tua L * b iM-rrg make it interesting for tall women . U) had nothing to say about hats. And it is explained that these rules shall not apply to wedding dresses, maternity clothes or burial gowns. that this order will bring about a fifteen per cent saving in the number of yards of cloth FASHIONS - 3 J 7 RUTH Babe Ruth, the old Bambino, the one-time Sultan of Swat, is in the hospital at Hollywood. Sctaken there from his hotel, on a stretcher, we learn, and put immediately into a pneumonia jacket. What’s more, the doctor saysa very sick man. After several years of tailing it easy, tUg. Bairs- went to work strenuously, A /A lost too much sleep, dieted.rigorously and lost forty So pounds' weight. SWt now he's in a pneumonia jacket. A