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broadcasting to you tonight in the
aidst of what may be one of the classis hurric~nes
of all time.
An hour•• ago the winds were blowing
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around us here in lew York at a hundred ailes an hour.
Still are judging froa the roar outside.
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At that
•• are only on the fringe of it. And at the
stor■'•
center
the experts tell us the winds are raging at
a hundred
and forty
■ ilea
an hour. And that center
right no•
ie sweeping
over the ea1tern tip of Loni
I1l1nd,
with
the full
force
of it descending on
•
Connecticut, Rhode I1land,
and laaaachu1etta.
Governor Saltonatall baa
■ obili1ed
three
ba\ti.iona
of the
laaaachuaetts lational
Guard to
take
over in the coastal area. The Federal
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leather Bureau sugge
s
ted that the populations of all
exposed places on the coast should be evacuated, but
there wasn't time. from raral communities coae harrowiqi
accounts of houses blown down, trees uprooted, telegraph
and telephone wires down, whole
areas
isolated
fro ■
c•■ unication
with the rest of the country. I
haYen't
been able
to reach
my 01rn
home to find out
what baa
happened at my fara,and at
GOYernor
Dewey'•
place
next
4oor.
Of course, it'•
impossible
to
estlaate the
effect
of the hurricane. but
already, with
it
atlll
blowing,
it's
being
called one of the great
atora1 in
the history of America.
Bere in Re• York City plate gla11 window•
caae
crashing in, and trees around Radio City were
uprooted -- everywhere.
IDBRJCAII :
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Thousands, like m7self, hive beea trapped
btre at Radio City tanight. Unable to get across
town te the Mutual Studios
I
asked
the
BBC
to loan
at
one of their's, and hook me up with IOR and on
acroas the continent to the Don Lee letwort. And
I'•
weaderiiD&
ho• all this complicated s•t-up is
working out.
Gettin& aomething
te eat
here in Radio
CitJ baa been a problem tonight.
The«■•
crowds,
unable to go home, swamped ever7 restaurant.
I
went to
the
•••Dk
Louis
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the-Fourteenth, thintin& it might be
le11
crowted.
And
I
was right. But the wind• roared
acroas Rockefeller Center,and before
I
could
even
order
a
sandwich, those huge
windows
at the Louis the 14th
••re blown in and the trees in the plaza
went down.
lbat a
night! And in a moment I'm suppoaedto
mate •7
••1
across the island to Fox Yovietone to
work
on
tonight's
newareel.
And there are no cabs
moving.
not
hill
ADD HURRICANE
Here's aomething
i*
later, just in.
Rearing on its way North, the hurricane struck at
Atlantic
City, lew Jerse7, and split the steel pier
in t-, just after Abbott and Coatello had boaght it.
The fringe of the
atol" ■
reached th• lew lnglaal
■b
1ho re Just about an hour ago. The pattern of the
1tor■
i1
alam t exactly the aaae as that if of
liaeteea
Thirty-eight
when aix
hundredand fort7-two
people were tilled in
■••
lqland alone, and oau•ed
a propert7 daaage
a■ ounting
to four hundred million
dollara.
Here's good news:-
Admiral Halsey••
Third Fleet bas piled up an exciting record.
t1anes
fro ■
bis task force up to yesterday had
pr_...~
sank or
daaaged
no fewer than one hundred
and eeventy-three Japanese ships.
In addition they
deatroyed fi•• hundred and one lipponeae planes.
111 those
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planes inA'
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laval
attack on the
Pbilippin••·
A c~uahing blow to the Mikado'• air
power.
Our
loaaea are
reported to have been light.
And word
fro ■
MacArthur too.
Bia heavy
boabera
have
been
continuing their attack on the
ialand
of
Celebea, --
an attack that has been going
on tor eleven
daya.
J.APAI
Fromfokyo we
l
e
a
rn of another Aaerican air raid
on the northern Kurile Islands.
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fit,...,._
\he Ger11an
Trans-Ocean A
g
ency
ni41l
broadcast this new• under a
Tokyo dateline.
It reported th&t the giant new
»
1-34
Super-Libe ator
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had flown into action
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for the first
tiaeJ
~ho•e-- i:HMMl•,
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The Jap
radio at Manila announcej that oarrier
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plan•• of Adairal BalseJ'• Third Fleet are atill
attacking the Philippines. Thia ti••
W::25 ~•••
raid
an island near the southeastern tip of
Luzon.
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a tatb bad and g e e ~ •
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p•••
ol
-i-t.-M that the Jape are closer to t # c a n
air base
at
(weilin.
They have been forging ahead
1outhwfst along the railway from Hunan to (wangai, and
are within twelve
■ ilea
of Chungchow, an
i■portant
1trategic place in northeastern Iwangai. They are
ad•ancing on Iweilin in a two-pronged
■ o•aent.
further south, howe•er, ea• fer\••• a1, ..... Nttai..
A.
in
a.-,
. , . Chinese troops w o n ~ aajor victory~
i~ci•
atteapt to join force• with
Ge•••w
Stilwell'• north
Buraa
araies. When the7 succeed they will have opened
blockaded
a land route
fro ■
India
int~•■,11••~
China.
This victory of the Chinese troops~,... the
capture of Tengchung, twenty-five
■ ilea
west
of the
'
Salween Ri verJ
&.tf. .., ..
the culaination of
weeks
of
bitter
•~ree~
fighting.
Dispatches from the front
report that the Japanese garrison died
al■ ost
to the
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last
■an,
aore than four thousand of thea.
They ha.C
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held Tengchung for two and a half year1.A
...ft,
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1r1w■u•
the first big Chinese town to be set tree in
aor• than aeven years of the Sino-Japanese War.
ll!A§lQt!
A ■ erican
troops are now eleven
ilea over
the
Ger■ an
••border.And this
means
that the
Ger■ ans
are now
confronted b
y
a new
experience - that
is new
since the days of Napoleon.
In
all their previous
wars,
ever since eighteen fifteen the Germane have
carried their fighting to the soil of other nation•
low
at long laat they are getting a do1e of their
own
lo fewer than seven coluans of
General Hodge'• First Aaerican lrmy
.
~ave driven into
Geraany.
It's not
easy
going for
the ■
for the
rainy 1eaaon baa
begun, so the Dougbboys tonight are
plowing
through
heavy aud.
leanwbile, the lazis
behind their lines
are working ieaperately, throwing
up
earth work•
to
ate■
the fury of the
A■ erican
attac~ -
additional
fortifications between the outposts of the so-called
Sigfried line and the
■ ain
belt of their
syste ■
ot
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defense. Th
a
t
system
of defense is not just one
line, but a series of fortifications
defense
in depth.
South of t~e
A ■erican
First
Ar ■y,
one of
Patton's columns bas broken through the outer fringe
of the Siegfried Line aid driven a
wedge
into that
toraidable systea
of
defense,
between
Metz
and
lancy,
cutting
the main
co ■aunication
lines between Metz
and Strassbourg, two
of
the strongest fortreasea
in all
Ger ■any.
General Patton is within twent7-1even
■ ilea
of the rich Saar basin, with its coal and iron.
Patton's men
l•**■■xtmxx
also aade progress today at
the southern end of that hundr,d and eighty-five
■ ile
front, the front r aching from !ix-la-Chapelle to
Belfort. They captured the
town
of Mirecourt,
twenty-seven miles to the south of Baney, and also
Charmes, twenty-two miles from Nancy.
The Franco-American Seventh Army moved up
north to protect Patton's right flank. They captured
several places, and tonigh\ were close to Chauaont,
where Pershing had bis headquarters in the last
lorld War.
further north the British Bevent~ Aray
baa broken through the lazi lines.along the border
between
Belgiu■
and Holland.
Montgo■ery
sent hie
Second Aray wheeling round between the Albert and
E1caut
Canals, hitting at that weak
••••nty-■ ile
stretch of the lazi line nort6ward !roa Aix-la-
Chapelle.
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One division
of
General Rodge's First
Aray
has in•aded Germany as far as
Pru■,
between
Coblenz and !ix-la-Chapelle.
Eight ailes over the
G•r■ an
border.
ISALX
In Italy, Lieutenant General Yark Clark'• fit
AraJ baa begun a general attack on the Ootbic Line
along
a
fH114.
111t
eeunty
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■i~ing fro■
the
~A.V
aa-
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DtLif
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west coast to a point east of the S
Yer.
Once again•• hear f r •
Ro■e
that the
aisa
defense•
of that Gothic Line are intricate and h•••
been
heavily reinforced.
It will aean a long, slow
operation and a hard fight to crack tho•• defenaea,
which are becoaing stronger evf!ry hour.
Several
British divisions, including one
fro■
South Africa,
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haYe
been added to
the western~
buapera, anti-aircraft guns and fortified positions for
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large infantry forces.
The deeper the Allied forces
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At the
sa ■ e
time, Italian partisans announce
that they hafe begun a general offensive in norther
Italyj
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fighting the
la1ie
in the
neighborhood of Loabardy, Piedaont, Li uria and
lailia.
The headquarters of this patriot force report•
that it is well araed, and has ilready forced the
Ger■ana
to get out of the area around lagjiore near the
.
Alpin frontier.
raaciat'officera in norttiern Italy
ha•• run away to Switzerland without fighting.
Jlllli
The capture of
Warsaw
by the Russians came in
sight tonight, when Rokoaaovsky's troops burst
into the
g,r~
industrial suburb of Praga,on the
east
bank of the Vistula,
quarter of a
aile
of
ri••r separates Praga fro•
laraaw
proper •
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So coaea to an end a •\el• that has la1ted
••••n
weeka, a siege
by tanks, artillery and infantry,
of the First lhite Russian Ar•JJ'
1-t
He-v~,....
one of th•
gri■■e■t
and bloodieat bettles of the whole war,
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~nlJ yesterAay
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RoKossoT■kJ
had receiTed reinforceaents of
11t.aa1■aa
at
■en
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and
hundreds of planes.
Twenty-four hours,A.{,&.,
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he resuaed hi• attack on Praga, a,.k-me• took it.
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Stalin re~rted that no fewer than
tlft7-two Ruaaian and Polish G1neral1 took part
in tile liberation of Praga.
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In laraaw proper>Poliah patriot• are
.
atill
fl&ktin& the Geraan garriaon, fighting wlth
araa
••pplled bJ tile Brltiah an4
.
laerioana. Tbe inalt• of
.
hear
fro■
Berlin.
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Secretary of War Stimson today gave Toice
to another of his periodical warnings -- thi•
tiae
a warning not to expect a total 4efeat of the Masi•
too soon. Be belieTes the
Ger■ ans
will defend their
leat
lall for all they are worth, and that they will
withdraw their troops
fro ■
lorway, Denaark, and the
laltana,
and throw
the■
in a• reserTea.
lost of the
Ger ■an
lineteenth Aray appears to
haTe eacaped
fro ■
General Patch, and i• back on Geraan
•oil. To be aare, those
■en
are weary, aor., depleted,
and haTe loat
■oat
of their h••TY
equip ■ent.
At ttie
•••• tiae,
the portions of the SeTenteenth and Fifteeath
lray
that escaped
fro■
northern France and
Bel1ia■,
h&Te by now partially recuperated. And then, the ia1i
i
gh
co ■■ and
is drafting
Ger■ an
ciTilians regardless
of their physical condition or the work
~hey haTe been
doing in essential war induatriea.
The
enemy,
Secretary Stiason, pointed out,
are strengthening the West Wall fortifications. Be
■ aid
that the way the Germans defended the approaches to
l1t1
ahows
how bitterly they intend to
aate
their
dete
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ae
of the Fatherland.
le also
learn
froa
Secretary Stiaaon'a
preaa
conference that Congress ia about to create
a
new
raat in the Aray. lhioh doesn't aean we are going
to
b•••
A■erican
field aarahala.
But, there will be a
••• title,
inter■edlate
betweea that ot 1eneral and
1eaeral-of-the-araiea.
The only 1eneral-ot-the-
araiea
that we h••• now ia General Perahin1. laahiagtoa
ia 1ueaaing that the two first officers to be
pro ■oted
to the new rant will be larehall,
Chief of Staff,
aad General
Eiaeahower.
TbtSecretar1 for War also
·r•••aled
today that
o u r ~ casualties, in all ~•r•icea, now total
neait,
four hundred thousand. The actual figure
ia three
hundred and eighty-nine thousand, one hundred and
twent7-five, of which eighty-six thouaan4, eight
hundred and seven are dead; a hundred am ninet7-fi••
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thouaand, one hundred
an4 aix
wounded; titt7-two
thou•nd, six hundred and tort7-seYen pri1onera;
tift7-four thoaand, ti•• hundred and 1ixt7-ti••
al11ing.Thi1
inclu4••
Ar117,
laTJ,
Marine
Corp•
an4
Coast Gaard.
At
uebec, President Roosevelt and
Priae
linieter Churchill have dispoaed of the question
ot
the
aupreae coamand in the Pacific.
In fact, the7 dispoaed
of it before the Quebec Conference, began.
So
aaid
Presidential Secretary Stephen Earl7. There i• no
queation
at tbia conference of creating
a new
ao-called
••per coaaand
for the Pacific
area.
larl7 declined to
co■■ent
on the auggestion of Governor Dewey, that
lu•Htd
MacArthur should be
■K■
in over-all charge
ol
the
co ■ ing
grand assault on 1apan.
Reporters asked larly whether the President'•
no■ ination
o f ~
liaitz
to be a full
adairal
■ ight
have anything to do with thia Pacific
coaaand
question. Early replied that the·reporters were entitled
to the full freedoa
ot
the press ao far as that
speculation is concerned.
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Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden will
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jein the conference tomorrow, and we hear the7 are goin1
to take up that
•~a-h~••
dyna■ ite-laden
queatioo1
6f
the diapute between the ,oles and loacow, the future
of
the Poliah frmtier.
11,IDS
The Departaent of Jutice has obtained indictaent1
against a hundred and aeventy-four Geraana in thi•
coatry., charging
the ■
with having concealed,or
ooaepiring to conceal,their connection• with the
la1i
Part7.
One of
the ■
ia Baron Louie Iarl Dethard Iurt
lolf Yon llatthi•••~
"1J4
has not
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known••
Wolf Kattbi••••J
edito/ tot, the •larch of
Ti••·•
been using hi• title.
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fil■
lttorneJ General Biddle aaid tbeae hundred an4
11Yent7-tour alien• aade tal.ee regi1tratioa1 la
liaeteea Forty-Two.
use,
It
was a
heavy fog in lndiana:ffe{'cauaed
th.:t"
wreck
of the Dixie Flyer
when
it ran into
a aail
train
MN'P
this morning.
The Fl7er was running at high epeed~
wlri'ie
the
■ ail
train.,... standing still. The Flyer ran
◄..J
1 ■ act
into the
eniine
of the
■ ail
train,Aetruck it ao
hard that the force
ot
the collieion sheared
oft
the
•
topa
of the leading cars of each train.
In the front three care of the Fl7er
were
aoldiera, on their wa7
fro ■
Fort Sheridan, Illinoia,A
-(.a
liaai,
Florida.
lost of the dead and wounded were
11r,ice
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If you are unable to buy all the cigarettes
7ou need, don:t blame
it
on the war.
~o
said an official
of one
of
the largest
co ■panies
in America. There are
oaly
about fifteen per cent fewer
cigarette ■
on the
urtet
today than in
••a
1
peaceti■e.
There should be
plenty to go around.
The total production ao far thi•
7.ear 11 a
hundred and thirty-eight billion cigarette•,
eaou1b
tor any nation to smo~e.
lb what is to
bla ■e?
Boa~ding, aay the
••■dacturer■.67•-:Y
people
·
are cha~n saoking because
ot alleged war nerYes. Also
.
, ~•ny civilians
N~ilille
~.._,MM••
have stocked up with ~ a p p l i e s ~
• ~ h t r i .
to la
s
t
Mte-a
for the entire duration.et tb&