EGYPT < 3 - In the Egyptian desert, ^err ^-rmQro 4 ) battle {jIXsidLA \ /\ c % mm<i ri ■■ v uti i n is bein£ waged in the northern sector of the El Alamein line. Australian troops broke through (M a J( ctor. Tfrpy the Axis lines in the coastal sectohave a force twenty-five hundred^Nazi and Italian soldiers^ isolated and surrounded. ■#1 The Nazis admit British Imperial forces AJ ^ broken through. They report the battle is becoming A more intense all the time. German spokesmen in Berlin Dt1...................... describeas the ^ V Radio Rome used these words:- nThe battle on the Egyptian front flared up yesterday with even greater violence." The Fascist radio went on to talk about "huge enemy armored forces." Both the Nazi and Fascist communiques c~aim that Axis counter-attacKS have stopped the British. But they admit that their EGYPT 2 losses are also formidable. There was a report that one detachment of Australians had driven a spearhead thrx> ufh the Axis front lines and then turned north and penetrated to a point on the coast twenty-five miles west of El Alamein.s <- . >. However,, til rN A is-f^irtrgCS- to & f- ^ ^^ Na 7. i tanks a narrow Sz<l corridor through which "Rommel re mf or cement s to A help the trapped soldiers. V An important part ac# the battle is being A by both British and American planes. One United States firhter scuadron siet-an Axis airdrome ' A A and destroyed at least seven Nazi planes. Then a force of twenty-five German dive bombers, with twenty pursuit planes, attempted to attack the British front lines. Allied fighters divedjinto the German formation and in five minutes tnsd shot down five Nazi bombers and damaged more than a dozen others. ADD EGYPT A late bulletin from Cairo brings sre word that the tanks of the Imperial army have smashed through the Axis mine fields. They pushed ahead A seventeen miles into open + ♦ *,zru Q ^ naw fighting what is described Rommel’s Afrika Korps. 3 The fighting is concentrated in the scrubby desert, well beyond the Axis TP fortifications. This is the first time that the eighth Army has tangled with Rommel’s tanks in open country. RUSSIA The news from Russia tonight /1 'the Nazis gxx oushin/ closer and closer to those vital J —------ A I VXj^Aj^ // 3 L- U^ k XT -ixicsotxxxxy ::r 1 c ar^v L v \^v r WV^ outnumbered and^are forging ahead steadily^southeast of Nalchik, which tte yesterday. The Nazi advance guard now threatens on the one hand Ordzhonikidze, the gateway to Georgia an: the southern Caucasus. On the other hand, the Nazis are menacing the railhead leading to t-iw Grozny, ***4^44#,^ that is the chief point of danger on the Russian front now. A Nazi news a ency today broadcast a claim that the Soviet forces had lost fourteen million men, killed, seriously wounded or taken grisoncr. The Nazis also point out that that part of the I I Soviet Union they have occupied is the most censely I )ivArdi OvU-bUr tUy ^0 'ninety million inhabitants, ^they have^Jfc&MK. | ' than four hundred thousand square miles of Russia. RUSSIA - ? The Soviet hif.h command counters# this propaganda claim with n statement that the Fed army A S c<j killed or put out of action at least ten million A Germans. However, in all reports of fighting on thaet Russian front, we notice that the Soviet dispatches constantly speak of the superior numbers of the Germans. FRANCE FOLLOW VICHY Bomb s ^ x rrl o today in several parts of the 0JIP unoccupied :\£ France. The si^ nificanl^fggr.uro—ei* :rg i s . t h a t .tircyntnip-ri r n en twenty-four hours A- /v before the opening of the Congress of the Pro-Nazi National Party in France led by the French Quizling, \ ^iAj^O Jacques Doriot. ^i«rrTr=^«>T^---Trw=^explos ions ^at Vichyt (^ne of /s 'htr-k destroyed the regional headquarters of the A >\ Doriot Party. Another bomb went off near the propaganda center cf Marshal Petain's National Legion Organization There were eight exolosions at Lyons^ once the center of the silk trade, tart bombs r ] ro fw^nlat Nice, /\ A /V Marseilles and six other large French cities. VICHY Cecretary of State Hull today spoke in defense ol his policies toward the Vichy regime in France. A reporter had asked him to comment on the statement made by ,rendell Willkie, the sentence in which Willkie used the words, ^continued recognition of the vicious and subversive Vichy government.” Secretary Hull said he was not going to get into any controversy. But, he would say positively that the government and the Department of State were both g=rrt^r^^y satisfied with the course being pursued in our relations with Vichy. There will be less criticism of American foreign policies, he declared, when the record is ooened and the public understands facts which are now held back. SOLOMONS From three fronts in the global war we have more favorable news today, tnrtnot from Russia. ^here the Nazis are throwing in everything, in a desperate attempt to get those oilfields before winter shuts down on the Caucasus. As for the brighter side of the picture, American men-o’-war bagged two more Japanese cruisers and one Jap destroyer. That is, two more than had been previously reported. It happened in the battle near Savo Island, in the Solomons, thenight of October eleventh- twelfth. The Navy already had told us they had sunk one heavy enemy cruiser* four damaged destroyers and a transport. Iso, that they SOLOMONS Lf ixx>x icx 2 VttM? two more cruisers of the Jap fleet. This,brinrs the yuasw JO^ i . x x ^ u total Jap warships destroyed in that battle to three /V cruisers and five destroyers. The news was brought to Washington by Vice-Admiral Ghormley, who was recently relieved of his command in the South Pacific area and replaced by Vice-Admiral Halsey. While giving out this news. Secretary Knox uttered a warning. He said:- "I detect a disposition to grow too optimistic about the Solomons due to our signal success in the first round." Then he continued: "There is no warrant for optimism.,., . i. j.± i iI 11 i 1 ; r I ~t nrrrh dnH-tTr~ We know the enemy have a fleet of formidable proportions left. We have not any doubt they will come back. It is dangerous to assume they will not be back." The Secretary said further: "Any assumption that this is all there will be of the operation, is BRWXXrXRt ® d x SOLOMONS-J unwarranted. There is a desperate hard fight ahead." "Both sides," said Secretary Knox, "are taking advantage of the lull to strengthen their lines for what will come." And then he remarked that in his opinion "some of the newspaper headlines this morning were more optimistic than the situation justified." Reporters asked the Secretary questions about Vice-Admiral Ghormley, to which Knox replied: "I told him to take a good rest and recover his health. He had been under a terrific strain." The battle in which our Navy lads sank three Jap cruisers and five destroyers was a midnight affair and lasted only thirty minutes. So it must have resembled the battle in which we lost four cruisers -- three American and one Australian. The recent battle came about through an attempt of the Japanese to land reinforcements, which they were obliged to abandon. Solomons - 4 IX# £X X.X w-v^^trs^r-g l^ter news from the Solomons' /■ land forces are still attacking west of Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal. Their way is prepared for them by dive bombers and gunfire from destroyers off shore \ The destroyers took advantage of the withdrawing of the tain Japanese fleet to move closer to land and shell the enemy position west of the Matanikau Fiver. Uncle San^s leathernecks^have pushed the Japs back 5 s far as two miles in one sector tyest of that river. But the news from those islands is not all good. In spite of the withdrawal of the Japanese fleet, the enemy has landed reinforcements on the east flank v v of the Americen forces, means^ the contingent W</W— holding Henderson airfield has enemy forces on both sides of it. We are not told any details about the landing of those^reinforeevents nor their number. Presumably they were landed by plane. In any event, SOLO70NS - 5 T4jE)fo£)x rx £x this news bears out Secretary ^nox's warning that desperately hard fighting lies ahead. The Navy today published a summation of the warship casua'ties. Sixteen American- ships have been sunk in the Solomons, including three cruisers and one aircraft carrier. On the other hand, American naval forces have N damaged a total of sixty-two enemy ships, 'PiKFt include#'' four carriers, three battleships, twenty-seven cruisers, eleven destroyers, three seaplane tenders, xourteen miscellaneous^ cargo and other vessels. One Jap heavy cruiser, eight destroyers and three transport vessels were definitely sunl. Two^destroyers and one transport probably sunk. NEW GUINEA Tonight we have further details of the surprisingly quick capture of strategic Kokoda in New Guinea. The news from Australia yesterday indicated that it might take some time before the Japanese could be driven out, forced to abandon the airfield there. Well, it seems thqt a large part of the credit for the victory goes to the three-man patrol which worked its way through the Japanese lines and obtained invaluable information. The patrol got into the enemy camp nine days ago, and returned safely with vital information. And so it was that the American- Australian command obtained intelligence that made the final assault far easier. the Aus+ralians have " earned j unrle f ight ing , jsFs4--asr A w^~I-I—a a t >!~g ^ NEW_GUINEA - ? Having consolidated their positions in VI j U) tJf ^ Kokoda, the Australian ground troops are pushing on K _________________ _ toward givi, the next native village^on the road to Buna. Meanwhile, flying fortresses and B-25 bombers kept a constant and comprehensive watch over the waters around northern New Guinea, looking for Jap convoys bringing reinforcements. They spotted one, a flotilla of two transports protected by a light cruiser and a destroyer, steaming for Buna. bomoers / __ A cot busy^ and at last reports, tha convoy, hc^d turned tail and was fleeing toward New Britain. manpower President Roosevelt had been advised that the War Manpov/er Comtaission should have the Selective Service under its wing. That advice was contained in the report sent to the President yesterday by Chairman Paul McNutt of the Manpower Commission. McNutt told reporters that this has become necessary because local draft boards are paying no attention whatsoever to instructions issued by the commanding officers of drafting men Selective who are sorely needed in war plants and especially on the farms. Elmer Davis, head of the Office of War Informal ion, said a few days ago that the manpower situation is becoming almost as muddled as the labor situation before it was handed over to Jeffers to untangle. If the President adopts the recommendations MANPO’.'TP o a in the manpower program, workers will be forbidden to enlist in the armed forces after January First. The /A Yrar Manpower Commission will decide where anybody can most effectively help the war effort. ROOSEVELT 0. A tall, broad-shouldered figure gaJ.re-d—x pollinf place at Hyde Park today. J. W. ^inch, Chairman of the election board, peered up over his spectacles and said solemnly, "Name, please?" The tall, broad-shouldered man replied:- "Franklin r>. Roosevelt." Then they as::ed him, "Occupation?" A To which he replied: "Farmer." And he added: "I think that’s what I said the last time." As he came out of the booth he xfcxKk .struck his head on the curtain rod and remarked plaintively: "They mi, ht raise the heght of these booths." Then he asked Chairman Finch: "Did my Missus’s ballot ret in from London in time?" Finch replied: "It is not included in the absentee ballots on hand. At that, the President shook his head, "Tut, tut. ROQC FVELT 2 He ha: sent Mrs. Roosevelt an absentee ballot to England and it had plenty of time to get back. FLECTIONS i? rom all over the country comes the same story about the elections'.^Vot inp is 1 if ht. Virtually all the candidates in their farewell radio broadcasts besought the electors, whatever their opinions to vote, no matter who^\they voted for. e —p y y\s\Asysy/\>^~£S~\ VV^vO \sv\ 1ro~h,»^e f reeled- thae 1 ea.' -Ti-tTh a On-e- -f^o-int eilr~<n>4. -trl^air-thi^Er -■&**>* ars-char th-fif you -o a n -f i-¥^ a nipn'“W"~ ^-u4^ur*r c*,!T!L l l -4’«pcc him "tro use -c4r. Maybe there will bd a late rush to the polls. Only in comparatively few states is the voting time over at seven o'clock. Many of them keep the polls open c^l until eipht. even nine P.M. In California, Oregon and A N Washington, the closing time is eleven o'clock. . i , . . ' Thirty-two of the states are electing governors. I T?ie keenest fight i^r, th.nt ^i11 in New York between Tom Dewey and State's Attorney John J. Bennett. ts—yem-ae lTrnT,j__. nrcitace-. .gf--^CTr i•:ty«r- PolitDc 4 ^ A.■ . r t0 ar--. . t -^ i c,t4^a-e--4hat enno•..4,- losesat ELECTIONS - 2 Tiie contest in Massachusetts is also kH a tescn f\ one. There the able and amiable Governor Leaveritt Saltonstall is having a tough fight for reelection against Democratic Mayor Roger vPutnam of Springfield. , - - oa ■ cw crr-tF-lA- .p# classic A /\ Americen names* - Sal tonstall and Putnam. - sf y -t ii is- i-a iwt- 4 e c t i o n f i Salt ons t a 11 lu^s- thr~o u p h-.— Tir~£iui&e h= A been described as a political wonder for having been elected twice already as Republican Governor in a normally Democratic state. In two of the eastern states there are^^fr^-n senatorial In Massachusetts, United States .Senator Henry Cabot Lodge is fighting hard to hold on to his seat against Representative Joseph E. Casey. In New Jersey, Albert W. Hawks is giving LECTIONS - 3 United States Senator Smathers a hard run for his money. Probably the light vote means that it will be long before we know who has been elected, at any rate in the states where voting machines are used. S) not