u •• The battle of the e,_reak-through is tough and stubborn going. Today, American Firs t Ar ■y troops widened the gap that they succeeded in smashing through the Siegfried Line. They added another ■ ile to the opening. And at the front edge of the wedge thruat forward through the gap they ha ■mered alo"~ tor further advances. The ene ■y resistance is of a ■ ost foraidabl • aort - the Ger■ ans aaking a fanatical suicidal fi&ht for the aoil of their country. The aaJor ele ■enta for their defense are artillery and earth worka. The Aaericana are advancin1 under ao~e of the heavieat shellfire ever witnessed in war - the 1• Ger ■ana having brought forward great ■ asses of guns. Their infantry is holding out in earthworks, trenches of a ■odernized kind - *• and thee, are eaid to be more formidable than the concrete pill boxes of the Siegfried line. ,. At one place in the ~attle of the Ereak through~ hostilities have assumed something of the • WESTERN UQ!! - 2 aspect of the jungle fighting in the southwestern Pacific. On the plain before the city of Cologne, there's a wooded section called Hurtgen Forest - the usual maze of trees. A ■ erican troops have driven into Hurtgen forest and are i ■■ ~i in bitter conflict with the Geraana. The tactics in the woods there are reainiaoent of the ways of war in the dense jungle• of the South Sea. But the aiailarity does not extend to cliaate, the wintr7 chill of northern Geraany being aigbt7 different fro ■ the dank heat of the equatorial thicket. In the Hurtgen roresti the Aaerican1 have reached their nearest point t~ Cologne on the Rhine - twent7-1even miles fro• the city. They have driven thirteen miles into Ger■any, and one spearhead is eight miles eaat of Aachen. ~ve for the Hurtgen Forest, the country is clear · and open flat land - excellent for the tactics of tanks. But the Geraans are fighting it out to the bitter end, and are making furious counter-attack&. These forced the Americans IESIERN FROH! - J back at a couple of places, but the First Army aen have surged forward again and reopptured what they had lost. The Allied news tells nothing about event• at the northern end of the battle line - in Bolland. But Berlin announce• that the British there have cro1eed the lower Rhine, and are driving northward, Accordin1 to B.rlin, a violent battle i• 1oing on, •• th• Geraana try to hold a drive which threaten• hundred thousand to cut the 1acape corridor for aAizis ■ x•~i•~ Geraan troop• in Western Bolland • • Along the coast of the lngliah Channel, the battle for Dunkerque was reauaed today - after a 1■ trucetdper■ it civilians to be evacuated. lineteen thousand people steamed out, in a huge procession. Today the truce ca ■ e t~an end, and the Canadian cannon opened fire ag~a~i~h~-:.--------------- The Allies dcf""n't expect t~have an easy time in capturing Dunkerque - they have evidence that the Geraans will fight as long as they can. The IESTIRN FROJ1_ - 4 evidence consists of the attitude of German officers •ho talked with British commanders in negotiating the truce. The British say that these Germans were fanatical lazis, who went so far as to try to convert the British officers to the cause of Bitler. And they have told their troops at Dunkerqua that it they can •old out a week longer, help will co ■ e, they will be relieved. Bow? By •tf •ictory tor Bitler. The lazi-tbeory at Dunkerqua ia that the long debated aecret weapon, the V-2, ia about to go into af action - and the Allies will be o•erthrown. So the Dunkerque lazis have only a week ■ ore to hold out before the coming of the triu ■ph - the V-2. It all sounds rather like a lunatic asylu ■, but the ~ritish are of the realistic belief that the lazi delusions will persuade the German troops at Dunkerque to put up the hardest k1nd of gis~ix fight. To the South, the sector of General P~to~) Third Army, the cannon were roaring today - roaring their loudest. The Germans, in their defense, are IESTIRR FRONT - 5 concentratin on artillery fi ■x• fire - and an American officer stated today that it waa the hea•ieat cannonade of the war -:_:_:_:_:_~~Do-= - -=-=-= - -------~ At Fort Dri~t~'taotaatic battle goea on with increasing weirdness and bitterness - the conflict between the Americana above ground and the Geraana in underground paaaages. Fanatical lazi fighter• continue to awara up out of their aubterranan ~~ worl~••• ••~ counter attackt. These are beaten off, and today the Aaericana above ground score.d a atrikinc aucceaa. They captured one of the tunnels - and tbia aay be the beginning of an underground war, a drive into the subterranean world. IIALX In Italy the Aaeican Fifth Army has progressed f ■ so far in its drive to break out into the valley of the Po that tonight American big•••• guns are shelling the outskirts of Bologna That city of couret, ie the key to the flat,. lands•• of the •alley. Bologna ie in artillery range now, which would aeea to ■ean that the long hard battle to get through the aountaina and onto the flat plain baa been won. The war news from Greece tonight features one of t he most c~lebrated of classic naaes British forces, having captured the port of Patras, are advancing alon the gulf of Corinth. rtn/to or the This line of ■arch will take the British to the Iath ■ us of Corinth, the narrow neck of land that connects the Peloponnesus with the reaainder of Greece. On the Iathaus, in ancient times, stood the city of Corinth, a aighty metropolis that figured so greatly in the splendors of the classic past - the glory that was Greece. ~ee1e bare eeen reporte ,hat the Ga~mso1 ia\end ~e fePtify ihe aaPre• ieih■~e ef Corinth and hoH GREECt - 2 A gai< le bear that the Germans have evacuated the island of Rhodes, famous in history for the giant • s. 1cuptured effigy called the Coloeaue. The Briti••, A up one in their aoves on Greece, are pickingAa, ■"island after another, and now - Rhodes. · SUBSTITUTE FOB LAST PABAGBAPB OF GREECE ~--------1 The latest tells or Allied invasions or half a dozen Grecian Isles historic bits or land in the Aegean Sea. And the Geraan garrison a is said to be threatened with a pincers ■ove ■ ent one Jaw of which is the force ■ oving toward the Iath■ua of Corinth, while the other ia an Allied Force that haa seized the island of Andora, near Athena. ena ,!!USSIA Russian Troops have r e ached Belgrade, That is to say, they are now on the river bank across the Danube from the Jugoslav Capital. Red Army Forces drove to the Danube opposite Belgrade on a twenty-six mile front, and have brought their big siege guns forward for a cannonade. hi1/ city ,t{ Another report tells of'a Russian naval success far to the North -- in the Baltia. We hear of eight large Ger■ an transports with ten th~u•~nd troops aboard, W'fflieh MP& torpedoed and sunk by Russ~an submarines outside of the harbor of Tallinn, the capital city of Esthonia. war flig / s that used ,, / in tlrl.'s fl he n 7 tlantio • along i■ line,fa?)today we have a climax of the old and heroic turned into the commonplace. Lindbergh'• flight has been duplicated, non-stop Ne• York*' to Paris - and just as a routine matter getting Chief of Staff General Marshall and aobilization Director Brrnea over to the war zone in France. It was seventeen ye,ra ago this past sua■er that Lindbergh made himself the world's moat fa ■ oua flyer by piloting an old-time pllne for the first solo flight across the Atlantic - le• York to Paris.: 7r.. For today's trip General lara6all and Mobilization Director Byrnes took a big transport fitted out especially for use by President Roosevelt - though he has not yet flown in it. At · the controls ~ t h e A President's personal pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Henry T. Myers of Tifton, Virginia. When they landed in IARSBALL. - 2 Paris, Marshall and Byrnes stepped out spic and span, fresh and rested, to be welcomed by General• Ei ■■ nho • er and Bradla7.1':,,.. •The trip• said,"Pilot 1Lieutenant Colonel ■y o re, •was a i i lot different froa Lindbergh'•· le had a pleasant jaunt, with steak for one ■ eal on the way, and creaaed chicke6 for another.• The aky YOJage took nineteen hour■ the fir■t ~ : ha■ been A ~ flo~in~dbargh ■ade it in thirt7-three hour■ tho•• year• a10. 100S~VELT - 2 battle - the Communist question, coamuniat support for a fourth ter■• I ■ Be disavowed the Beds, 1ayin1 that be rejected the backing of the Communists. I don't know whether the di1ciples o f ~ Browder• and Stalin are discouraged by this, but in Boston a lively row ia on because of a bit of Coaauni1t fourth ter■ electioneering. The Co ■ auniat political aaaociation ia 1ponaorina, an anti-Dewey ■uaical show, which ia to have ita pre ■ ier at a7aphon7 ball tonight - aa ~ part of a co ■■uniat rall7 which Browder will address. Thia ha• aroused the ire of organised woaen votera, and the laaaacbueetta lo ■en's PoliticalClub deaanded that the city ban the Coamuniat electioneeriDI theatrical production attacking Dewey. The city censor said - no, he couldn't do anything about it. So now the Women's Poiitical Club announces that the show will be picketed. Some fifty thousand women ■ embers are urged to join the · picket line at the C • t lly I don't know whether all fifty thousand ommun1s ra • lQQSEVILt - J of the ladies •ill reap.Ind, but if they should it would be ao11ething that even llarx, Lenin, Stalin and the party line would have trouble t ■ a in solving - a picket line~ fifty thousand angry woaen! roLLPI RQQR.EYE~I • Bere'a the latest, Dewey's reply to President Roose•elt'a rejection of ooa ■ uniat support. Thi• afternoon the Republican Candidate stated: •Mr.• Rooae•elt asked the aaerican people not to look now, because ao ■ebod7 ia following hi ■•. BULL A paradoxical state of affairs is indicated in the case of the agreement on foreign policies between Secretary of State Cordell Bull and Republican candidate Toa De w ey. Foster Dulles, Dewey in general agree ■ ent legotiating through his e issary, ~~ /)~ ~ 1'., and - Secretary of Stat~are on the final draft of a world aeourity organization foraulated at I• Dumbarton Oaks Thia agreeaant with Dewey waa affiPaed today by the Secretary of S~t~a~t~• ~ · - - - ----------- - - - - - - - - - ~ . _ , But, at the•••• tiaa, ao ■a other ae ■bera of Dewey's party do not agree with the agree ■ ent. Senator lherry of lebraaka, tor exa ■ple, denounce• the Du ■ barton Oaks conference and· says the adainiatratio ia concealing what the senator called •a long list of shaaeful peace settlement• alreadT agreed upon in Europe". And the Senator added that because of the Dumbarton Oaks agreements we · are, in his words, •beilg driven into a state of perpetual war". All of which, from a Republican source, is in contradiction to the agreement between Dewey and Hull concerning Dumbarton JlPLL - 2 Oaks. And then there is Republican Senator Ball of Minnesota, who differs with Dewey on stil~other grounds - Senator Ball t~king a still more internationalist position. All of which is only part of the tangle - because on the De ■ocratic side, too, There are aeabere of Congress who do not see eye to eye with the Secretary of State in hia cha■pionship of Du ■ bartu Oaks. Both Secretary Bull and candidate Dewey Join in a call for non-partisan unity in dealing with our foreign policy - but there are both De ■ocrata and Republican• who disagree with the two protagoniata at the top, fOLYGAMY In the Polygaay - trial at Salt Lake City the jury's verdict ia -- guilty. Thirty-one defendants who call theaselves fundamentalists were found guilty tonight on the charge of conspm.ng to practice polyga ■y. Their defense was that, in advocating and practicing plural aarriage, they were ■ erely followin1 the original tenets of the Mor■ on church. However, the Moraon Church renounced polygaay years ago, and has been active in trying to el~ainate any linsering practice of plural aarriage. The evidence showed that the thirty-one fundaaentaliata on trial were adherents, in theory and in practice, of the doctrine of ■ any wives. And the jury's verdict is -- guilty, with sentences to be imposed on the thirty-one fundaaenta'llista. , EIRE The Emerald Isle of Ireland is a land of contradiction, as was noted by the late G. I. Chesterton, who wrote: •The great ~ael of Ireland! whoa the Goda aade ■ad_,for all his wars are aerry, and all bia aonga are ••i sad•. Why this outbreak of bibernian paradox toni&bt? There ia news froa Dubl~n, which tell• ua that Ireland aay be ousted fro ■ \be British lapire • . . lo, the Irish won't withdraw, aec•de, revolt or rebel. It . •• the other way round. The British may eject Ireland fro ■ the British lapire -•aich aight •••• to inflict on the Irish•• the Tery thing they have been battlin& !or ever since the first Iriahaan saw the first Englishman. Ireland is, right now, virtually independent, and neutral in tbe war - the Irish stubbo~nly maintaining the right to be out of step in the big parade. But still, there are some more or less IIRE - 2 indeterminate relations bet w een the two ill assorted ialanda, and this we hear irka, not the Irish, but the Brit iah. There , ia a good deal of indignation in ln1land because Irelan• haa stayed oat of the war, and pro ■ inent Britishers are reported to be ■ ayin& - w won't have the• in our e ■pire any longer. Th• Britiah, too, would see ■ to be afflicted with a bit . of contradiction and paradox. Bavin& fouaht 10 hard an4 not 10 1ucce1afull7 to keep Ireland in the e ■pire, They no• want to to•• Ireland out. But, f auppo•• the Irish ehould •iaaiat on atayin& in! 42,.... well, it'• all too contu•ing, and you'd have to have an Irish poet to ficure it o u t . ~ , Y~ - ., •. 'V,:;e.¼ .......... y,M. ~ ~ c:AAt-. BQLLAHl2 :1.w l:;-' ~ . The exiled govern ■ent of the Netherlands today ■ ade the threat that at the peace table after ' . the defeat of Ger■any, Bolland would de ■and a slice of Ger ■an territory. lhia - not because the realistic Bollandera are a ■bitioua, but because they might want reparation in terms of territory for the ruin that Leader• of the exiled government stated toda7 that their country faced the greatest cala■ ity in its history, a Ger ■an orgy of deatructi n by fire and flooj. The 1azia are conductin& ruthless de ■olitiona, auch as blowing up buildings and harbors, and the7 are doing even worse with the eleaent of water. Th• letherlands, the low countries, are juat that - nether, lo• lying. And great areas . of sea have to be kept out ■ t b~ those famous and historic dikes of Bolland, the Dutch more than once having been known to flood their land as defense against a foreign foe. ) How it ts he Germans who are doing the flooding. The exiled government stated today that already twenty per cent of the farmland has been inundated - •bioh means that it has been ruined for ■ onths, or for years. And it is believed that the Germans aay flood as much as forty-six per cent of the fields of the letherlands. Moreover, they intend apparently to let the deluge into cities like Aasterdaa and I ■ Rotterdaa - which are lo• lyin& and p ■ i ■ ai■t protected by dikes. They could flood these cities to a depth of from eighteen to twenty feet - bringing the ■ aia ocean in. Thia is the sort of ruthless dea,ruction which may persuade the Dutch govern ■ent to de ■and Ger ■ an territorJ. One cabinet aeaber of the exiled aovernaent today gave warning to the Ger■ans that Rolland aay be forced to deaand areas of Geraany - •auoh as we do not like it•, said he. ~ I e~gh\.--- ~~ apologize for what I called the St. Loui s Browns, t-ire d a y before yesterday - Hitless W onders. They were that during the first game, comparatively hitless, and altogether wonderful. However, it was• differ e nt et»er1 today. The Browns, supposed to be so feeble with the bat, turned into a bunch of deadly sluggers. - the kine! that, e&a p,st, en a aarJepou• n=::.~~ ully with tsW'► 011"'2. ih-&f d ~ /\in their big inning, the third, ..«i th two do•ll.- they launch e d a five--hi t attack and scored four runs - enough to win . the game. !be 6ttrtt&--~std=e1 able hi bt»ing agaiaet. i»awnia Pitcher lraaer, hats tre--,followad ih&r prooeed 11 J"e t.Aat the i11ewna feata, eci all aeain>1r= ge+,+.iD8 int.• eae- -0.f So now the Browns are ahead in the series agait, two games to one. And, after their prowess at the plate to d ay, lam compelled to say - No, they are not hitless ~~--- wonders. , ...