GOD
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General
MacArthur's menP.,~:s:t1:e::::m~c;:Jn.::::::J;:e
g:rah
hbRiieel•.-a
another island in the Admiralty
~;J..i
Grouf.
The island is called
Manu~he
largest of
I\
the
all.
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another
dramatic
ampbibious
operat·on,
with warships and aircraft preparing the way with
a
heavy•• bombardment.
After
softening
up the Jap
defenses,
MacArthur landed infantry and tanks and
began a
drive on a big airdrome fro
m
which the
Japa
have been operating.
a
■ ile
captured
~
A.
and will
Our ground troops \\ent ashore only
a
half
~
~
(prob
ab
1
y
away
from)~@
."AtMAtc
and
they
have/(,z ■,
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it by now.
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iSlaa,!
i•
sixty-mile4-long
~
give
0ncle Sam's
forces
.-i , • . ,
useful base
/'-
/1
for further attacks upon the Japanese.
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B
f
ore
l
a
n ing on
anus, ,acArthur' s
forces
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bad
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smaller
islAtis:ct:a•
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The
fi hter
s
who
are no
pushing
t9
rd th t
Yanus
airdrome
are
the same dismounted
saia
cavalrymen of
on February twenty-ninth and have since wiped the
enemy off two other islands and' cleared the way for
artillery t ~
~ a n u s .
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a r raid on Truk. This, the first
assault on thatfaid-Caroline Japanese base by aray-land-
based planes, -- i.e., the first extensiYe use
made
of
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those ne• air bases•• ha¥1 recently
•zs
wrested
froa
A
the Jape.
Admiral Nimitz reports that the raid was
carried out by land-based Liberators. Their objectiv•at
Truk were mainly
airdro ■ e
installations, fuel dum s,
and auunition depots. Heavy explosion
indicated that
they found their targets, and left huge fires
p:..::~eb!ad
on t•o of the islands of the Truk group.
Also, they seem to have met
ith no air
JJ
interception. Although heavy
flak
hit one of the big
~
J
7,<
~
four-engined bombers
which managed to get back to base.
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Meanwhile
~
to the South, a terrific fight
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has been raging on Bougainville, in fact
it::::i:t
is
going
on
still -- for the sixth day in succession.
Against Japanese sui
c
idal attacks.
Twelve hundred of
who ■
have died for their Emperor.
Our losses total
.A
a
hundred and twenty-
t
hree.
ef oar
eeaahheai- oa- B011sainv-ille...- 9e-
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Thie is the
biggest
~~
Pacific battle in months\~the biggest since our
Marines and troops captured Munda on lew Georgia last
July.
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An intereatilg tale comes from Iwajalain in the
Marshal ls. This happened some
weeks
ago.
About a
■opping
up prty that was clearing the Japs out of the
last dugouts left there. The American~were just about to
blow
the remaining enemy skyward, when one Jap
came
running out with his hands high over his head, and he
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shouted in
English:
•Don't shoot, I've got a brother
..
in Brooklyn!"
The combination of ideas struck the American
officer in coamand as
so curious that he held his
fire.
And finally he diecoverett that the Jap actuall7
doe a
ha
Ye
a brother in Brooklyn. And thanks to the
Brother in Brooklyn, he didn't get shot!
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P}LOTS
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The men of General Ienney's Fifth Air Force
if41ew
Guinea are melancholy today. For two
of
their
boldest comrades are aissing.
One,Colonel Reel Iearby of San Antonio,
Texas.
Thirt1-two 1ears old, winner of the Congressional
Medal of Honor.
lumber two ace in the South Pacific.
The San Antonio Colonel usually flew with one of bis
baby son's teething rings as a good luck
aaulet •
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flying Thunderbolts.
And out there in those skies aboye
wild lew Guinea, Reel Iearb1 wore out three Thunderbolts.
Bis fayorite he called •riery Ginger," after
Ju wif'e,
who had borne hia three sons.
On the side
of
his Thunderbolt he had
painted a Jap flag for ever7 one·ot Tojo's planes
be had
shot
down.
Ie~rby bagged his first Jap last Septeaber.
In
the following month, be got six in one da7. For
which
they g ve him the Congressional Medal of Honor.
As he flew on his
-
last mission, the San Antonio
Thunderbolt flier was wearing -- or was entitled to wear
PILOTS
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and probably
wasn't
-- ten other iecorations.
Among the vanished also is Lieutenant Colonel
Thomas
J.
Lynch of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania.
To ■
Lynch, twenty-six years old, was officially credited
with nineteen victories. But his companions gave him
credit for a dozen more -- which would mean thirty-one.
A modest, quiet chap, Tom Lynch se1doa spoke. Re was
operations chief of the fighter command of General
lenney's
fifth Air Fore~ and they had made him a
Lieutenant Colonel only a few days before he flew over
the last horizon.
So two of the best are
gone.
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The
air
war
/
in the last twenty-four hours
~
continue( with a vengeance.
Last night the British~
K ■ Ri!RI
sent
out more than a thousand of the h•aviest
~- ~;
r=;
bombers of th~:,:a~
iffi
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The) bombed Stuttgart,
they bombed Munich, and the1 set
'
afire targets in
northwestern German,. Altogether, they dropped
■ ore
than three thousand, three hundred tone
of demolition
and fire bombs, mostly on Stuttgart.
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They were working through a heavy cloudb9nk
:
~(ich prevented
till!
pilots
f'roa
seeing what their bombs
had done.
But
as
the attack ended, the fires they set
were so large that they could be seen even through the
clouds. (ln that raid, the British lost forty-one
bombers
altogether.
Today the
Eighth
Unitea States Air Force picked
U
h
th RAF left Off
Lo ndon reports that the
p were
e
• • •
•
air-mada which
went
out
in
the daylight hours today,
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WAR
The air war in the last twenty-four hours
I
continue(. with a vengeance.
Last ni
g
ht the British
a=
NL ■ Bd
sent out more than a thouAand of the h•aviest
bo bers
The
bombed Stuttgart,
they
bo bed Munich, and they set afire targets in
northwestern Germany. Altogether, they dropped
■ ore
than
three thousand, three hundr d tons of demolition
and fire
bombs, mostly on Stuttgart.
~
They were working through
a
h
avy
cloudbant
·
~j(ich prevented
t:IR!
pilots f'ro seeing what their bombs
had done.
But as the attack ended, the fires they set
were
so large that they could be seen even through
the
clouds. (ln that raid, the British lost forty-one
bombers altogether.
Today the Eighth Unitea States
Air
Force picked
Up
h
th R
.
AF
.
left of'
London reports that the
were
e
• • •
4•
air-mada which went out in the
daylight
hours today,
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~oneieted of probably more than two thousand aircraft
altogeth r, bombers and fighters.
Our own air
oommand hasn't
yet
identified
the targets, but the Bermans
reported
that we
struvk at Augsbug and Ola,
here the
Bazis
manufactu•
air craft and preeieion
instru ■ enta.
Ob
yes, and
Doolittle gets his
proaotion!
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Be is now a L1eutenant General. The
United States
Senate today unanimously confirmed hia
nomination as
sent in
by
President
Roosevelt three
days ago.
Stalin:s fighting men have captured Vapnyarka.
And th
a
t sounds l i e just another difficult Russian
na ■ e.
But, it
meam
aore than that.
For the fil of
Vapnyarka gives the Reds anothe important railroad
line leading out of Odessa, k last lazi avenue of
escape Tia the Black Sea. And, it's only a few
■ ilea
fro ■
the Dniester Ri•er, a
■ere
twent7-seYeD
■ ilea fro ■
Be11arabla.
in recapturing Vapn7arka 1 Jo•
t_,,
~•s•
split the Geraa
ar■ iea
of the Ukraine in two;
At
lwa ■ L
••
aays Moacow.
Official bulletins
fro ■
the Soviet capital report the
German troops of the southern wing of the lazi Ukraine
aray as fleeing in great di1order •
.
.
One German phrase
used
to d•acribe
thia
retreat sounds funny.
•our disengaging
moYe ■ enta
continue according to plan.• So
says
Berlin.
leedleas
to
say,
the disengaging
m
oveaents consisted
of getting
away
from the Russian ar111 as far and as fast as possibl•
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The
Russian Second Army of the Ukraine, under
Marshal
I•■
Ionev, in following the Germans across
the
Bug
~
River, advanced twelve
/\
■ ilea
ln one day.
The Battle of the Ukraine is fast drawing to
an end. And, the German armies are coming pretty
■ 1111111
close to countr7 where thef will have no natural line
ot
defense,
no mountains, no deep
wide
rivers to
~Dterpo••
~•*••••••~
between
theaaelves and the Russian• until
the1 get
to the wild Carpathian loontaina, which,
however,
do not extend north
ot
the old frontier
between
Poland and Csechoalovakia.
In tact,
fro ■
the Polish
·
border all the wa7 to the lorth Sea,
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flat plainAover which the kussian war machine
••1
t o ~ ~
continue.A1 ~bighgear.
~
a tretches
,t
vast
r.
Evidently
there
still is hope in Washington
r ~
that the
,t•ople
et
lia\••d
■ a1
be persuaded
~
~.
t o ~
I\
ill
LIie
toweX
President Roosevelt issued
a
atate ■ent
today
which had an
obvio~s
diplomatic purpose.
In it
be used these
words:
•tt has alwa7a
aeeaed
odd to•~
and to f,he
people
of the United Sta
tea/
to find Finland.
a
partner
of
lazi Geraan1.
fighting side
by
aide witll
the sworn
ene ■ iea
of our ci-rilisatio.n.•
Ir.
Roosevelt then
went
on to point out that
the
Finnish
people now have a chance to back out on
that hateful partnership, and he added~ •I think I
caa
speak for all Americana when I
say
we sincerely hope
Finland
will
now take the opportunity to disassociate
herself
fro ■
Germany.•
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From Stockholm we hear later that Moscow
/Jt.Ar),J
bas
the bad news froa the Finnish government.
The
Finn• reject the Russian terms and the Finnish note
~
v f ~ ~ L ;
.-disturbs ling Gustav~f-the-FifthJ
awrl
••.c
Government
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801i1n~
The Swedish Iing sent a last appeal to
the leaders of the Finn• urging
the ■
not to shut the
door on further negotiations.
IJ But the protpects are not too good.
The reports £rom the Capital of Finland indicate
that the Finns will not swallow the
ter ■ s
offered
by
Iosco•.
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The people of Germany beginning to lose
their
illusions about their Fuerher.
All of which
is due not so aucb to the boabardment of Berlin
as
it
is to that
epic
defeat at Stalingrad
a
year
ago.
So aaid Relph Heinzen of the United Press, one
of the crowd returning on the GRIPSBOLU. Beinzqn
aaya
the
Germans now live in fear and trembling of
a lussian invasion with only the Bitler Youth and
the aost militant Mazie still believing it is
tor Geraany to achieve a military victory.
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~ ~ r ' s people
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realize now~hey are fighting with
.s
their back to
the wall,
fighting for their l i v e s . ~
-tt-ie1
have forgotten all the
reason■
for which the7
went
,-.:.
to
war,
■ v
tn
i'iSft,.
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Secretary of War Stimson seems to think
it~s unfair to Kzii criticize our military strate11
so far in Italy. For, says he, it has already achieTed
its first objectives. Also,
he
adds that Allied
successes in the Mediterranean hav
e
~elped greatl7
elaewhere.
Summing up, Seoretarj
Sti ■son
pointa out that
we have opened up the l
~
diterranean, knocked Italy out
of the war, now control a large•part
of
the Adriatio,
and •• have
helped
Soviet
Russia
by tying
up
some ninete
Geraan divisions in
Ital7.
As
for the latest
£roa
the Fifth
Ar■7,
it
haa been
following up that terrific boabardaent of
Jesterday, with tanks and infan'try.
Reports
fro ■
laplea
bring
word
that Al
l
ied infantrymen now have the
re ■ aining
Germana squeezed into a pocket in the aouthera
section of Cassino, a pocket that is oonstantlJ shrinking.
Meanwhile, another wing of the ar111, f igbting be hind
axa■■ k••••z•••
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a saokescreen, stormed the slopes of Mt. Cassino.
The Ger ans continue to fight back desperately.
lazi paratroopers, araed with
a■ zil
mortar,, aachine
guns and rifles, doing their utmost to slow up the
Allied advance.
Oue bulletin states that the Geraana have
beea
driven back
froa
a bridge spanning the Rapido Rive~
But,
they •x atill hold several atrong points, especially
in
the southern section of
Cassino.
Congressmen today h e a r d ~ an interesting
,\
bueinesa transaction which the War Department
aade
about
a
year
a
g
o. There was a conaid~rable Yoluae of superfluou
dry cell batteries on hand, over-age batteries. They
were
worth a hundred and sixty-one thousand, a hundrei
and aixty-four dollars, said Congreaaaan John Cochran
~'
of liaaouri. AThe lar Department sold
the ■
for a hundred
and thirty dollars.
Thia happened at Ogden, O~ah.
One buyer paid eighty dollars for soae of those batterie•
and resold onl7 a portion of the• for
twen 1 thouaan4
dollars. The
■ an
who bought
the ■
was a
ciYilian
e ■ployee
of the
ar ■J
service depot at Ogden.
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Taxes
by
and large are not a subject for
~
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So
1
let's welcome this note of levity.
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-r-eo-or:::_
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Robert B. c~omwell of Tujunga, Cali
f
ornia sent
~
bis tax
return to the Internal Revenue Collector
at Loa
Angeles.
That was not all be sent.
Be
enclosed
several spirin tablets neatly
wrapped
in
cellophane, with a
note to
the
C ~ a t
he had
J
'
thoae
left
over!
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Collector
Barry
estover
of
Loa lngelea
T ~ J
wrote
back to Robert B. Cromwe1;, in
these
words:-
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'Thanks
for
the aapirin, we
need it•. ind then he
add d the glad tidings:
•You
paid sixteen dollars
too auch•.
lag1r,
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.Apolitical news
co ■ es fro ■
the South, the first Republican State
Convention
of
the year.
Eighteen hundred delegates
of the GOP in North Carolina gathered together at
Charlotte and staged
a stampede,
a
1ta■pede
for
•
I■
Governor Tom
Dewey
of••• York.
There• a no
argu ■ ent
about
it,
it was a unaniaoua affair. Tb•
whole eighteen hundred of tbea shouted out a demand
that the Bepublican lat.ional Convention~ C h i : . ~
1k11II
draft Dewey aa candidate for P r e s i d e ~ . ~ - ~
, A . : ~ k . , ~ ~
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outhern stateaman
1
~ade a speech today
which
alaoat assumes
the character of" political
bombshell.
Be deaanded that the
De■ocratic
lational ConYention
retura to the two-third• rule, ·no candidate to be
ao■ inated
for president except
b, •·
■ rJ
alt;
I
1r
'A
two-thirds of all the
De ■ ocratic
delegates. Yo~llllf'
recall that it was in lineteen Thirty-Six that the Part7
dJ.4
away with the rule, the 7ea~ that Mr. BooseYelt wa1
ao■inated
for the second tiae. The two-third• rule
'4..£
al■oat
atopped Ir. loosevelt in lineteen Thirt1;T•o.:..
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The
atates ■aa
who waata to go back to that- a
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Congressaan Eugene Cox of Georgia.
I)
wants
it
_
reatored for the
s
ak
e
of the South. When it was
abrogated, said Cox, the South c
,
oapletely lost its power.
QIPOIEB
.
A Washington
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-p
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official today
bla ■ed
Mclutt'a
"
lar Manpower Coaaiasion for the shortage of recruit•
for the army. The Coamiaaion had failed, said he, to
hold down
replace ■ ents
in industrial planta
1
and
1
labor
turaoTer.
The
■an
who aaid this was Colonel Francia
[ee1ling, a
1pokea■an
for th9 SelectiTe SerTice.('h•r•
were
■ore
than nine hundred tliousand
■ en
today, he said,
aen ude~ twenty-six without
fa ■ilies,
yho are bei~g
deferred because they are needed in industry or
agriculture. The reason for thia, Ieealing added,
11
that
■ any ■en
who are
siaaifi■
classified Four-l
cto~~
~•an7
wo■-n,who ■ight
work for the war effori•••
not doing so.
LABOR
roL~QI
MAIPOIER
~ ' t o ~
The traffic in the renting of labor
t:. even
I\
■ ore
widespread than was indicated b7
a
report
aade
public two daye ago. An investigator tor the Military
Affairs Coaaittee of the House declared today that
aoae
twent7-five to thirty
fir ■•
have bee organized tor thia
purpoae. They contract tor labor
'
and then rent the
aervicea of the aen to war contractors, at huge rate,.
The
■en
who do the work get no benefit out of thi•.
The profits in
aoae
case• run aa high as two hundred
and
titt1
per
cent.
All this
is being
paid b7 the
govern ■ent,
-~
1
bee••••
■an1
war
contracts are let on a cost-plua
baeia.
These practices, the investigator said, are
coating
the governaent untold
suaa
for war production.
What is aore, both the far Department and the lavy
to
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Department are
appa1eatly
condoning thi:r racket.
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A great English corporation today
was aade
defendant in an anti-trust suit filed by the De
;
artaent
of Justice.
Fifteen Aaerican
fir ■s
are also involved.
The British corporation is the great cheaical trust
known
as
Iaperial Cheaical Industries, Liaited. Th•
1o•ernaent
charges that the fifteen Aaerican fir••
and
the
Briti•h concern had a cartel
agreeaent
which
kept down production and raised the prices of certaia
cheaicala
to the public and· to the goTernaent. Thi•
unlawful coabination,
aaid
the Department of Justice,
has been going on for twenty years.