L.T. SUNOCO MondayQct.. 26. 1942 GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY: News - rom the Egyptian desert. The Imperial Eighth Army has driven an even deeper wedge into Rommel'i Alamein lines. The British are going all out trying to draw into battle the main armored forces of the Nazi Afrika Korps. Rommel has launched several counter-attacks, which have been beaten back by Australians and British, and p the New Zealanders, articularly by Scottish regiments. The Nazi High Command admits that Rommel is facing a large-scale offensive by the British. But they claim that the Axis troops have defended themselves with success and have destroyed a hundred and four LEAE . 2 British tanks. Berlin reports that fighting is going on iay and night. It also claims thsrt. the British tried to land^near Mersa^Matruh Friday nightl^^^^ attempt ^ ih. vw ^ ^ beaten back by German heavy bombers. A The British, for their part, report that they forced the panzer divisions to fall back, leaving a lot of their machines mtfcfcnsl. . Xhiaxmarnix? An attack this A morning by German tank forces, which were supported by- infantry, was driven back by a heavy concentration of British artillery. The British infantry stooo their ground until the_ir tanks came to the rescue. \ '^^riti^-^mmand^has^hopes of making a -i i - lines , with the ultimate clean break through Rommel s xines , object of winning back Tobruk^—------------- „■„ corps planes took a American army air , i„ the fightihg. Fighter— bombers, considerable part in ^ U . xS', Y .pd by Baited date's .figbtre^ planes, medium bombers, escorted oy y \ > A IL - EAD - 3 attacked the Axis forces on a large scale. The American communique declares that "direct hits by our bombers and fighter bombers on tanks, motor convoys, and motor vehicles, caused numfcerous fires throughout the battle area. The American pilots belong to what is called the Black Scorpidn Squadron. They shot down four Axis planes, damaged three others, and landed bombs on the airdrome at Daba. An American correspondent reports that it is too early as yet to make any prophecies on the outcome of thst battle. But, he declares, it can be definitely 4 aid that the Allies have definite superiority m the air prove^ by the fact that convoys ^carrymg- upplies' to th, front tin,, nr, not eing molested from the air. at all. hot even at nlfht. although the full moon is brought enough to read by. LEAD - 4 The Axis now appears to be almost in the same position as the British expeditionary force was in Greece in Nineteen forty-one. The one main difference being that Rommel* s communication lines are unbroken as yet. A still later report from Cairo brings word that New Zealand troops have smashed through Rommel's lines. I have just come from Washington and Jefferson College, at Washington, Pennsylvania, and while there I encountered Mayor La .Guardia, and the Mayor told me something I had not heard, that Nazi Field Marshal Rommel was in this country some years ago, in fact attended our army mechanized school, and learned about tanks from us -- graduating at the head of his class. DAKAR V^ciiy Darlan has returned from & visit to /f Dakar, that French naval air base on the west coast of Africa. ^ani _^X(SL ^ ^X j J k J x ^ Admiral, S Commander of all the armed forces of the A (f< Vichy government. his inspection, he try to touch Dakar at this time. defenders of—^thst A are ready. On his way home, Darlan uttered a waining in Morocco that in case of any attack on her African colonies, Vichy, France, will not fail to use every defense available. ^He said nothing about how we Dakar would stand out against the Axis MILAN The British Royal Air force on -ttj-tW took Wl-iX^vv + ne Italians completely by surprise. It was a large A force of heavy Lancaster bombers that made the raid. The pilots of the bombers included two Americans. They reported that people in the streets appeared dazed. ir. As the bombers flew across France, they were hedge-hoppin§ to evade anti-aircraft fire. Many Frenchmen waved at them; The British airmen replied with a "V" for Victory sign.^One squadron leader said he saw a four thousand A r ; ' pound bomb burst,ini that whole buildings flying. A A i BOSSIA Late news from Russia. Nazi divisions have pushed their way down the HMXXBlack Sea coast of the V Caucasus. They hove terpseighty miles below Novorosisk^ £tr"-rg one ot the last places of refuge from which the Soviet Black Sea fleet can operate. This tetf news was announced from Moscow by the Red high command. SOLOMONS President Roosevelt held a series of conferences -t tnejvhite House today, and it was believed that the subject was the Battle of the Solomons. The President had summoned his personal Chief of Staff, Admiral Leahy, also Admiral King, head of the Navy. Earlier in the day, Mr. Roosevelt received Congressman Maas of Minnesota, who a reserve colonel in the marine corps and who recently ^ 0 - 4 ^ ^^pthTsT^e time, we hear that a battle is raging on Guadalcanal with no quarter asked or given. The Japs are delivering one attack after another Uncle Sam’s marines holding Henderson airfield Guadalcanal. 0„ bombers da.ased five ene.y ..rship. onn one either heavy cruiser including three cruisers or battleship; also a destroyer. Nevertheless, bsx do what they will, our forces are still unable to prevent the Japanese from landing fresh rei_ivforcements on the northwestern tip of the island. By way of consolation, we hear that the A first attempt of the enemy on ’and to tear our marines away from their foothold, cost them dearly. Five enemy tanks were destroyed. The Japs have attacked several times within the last five days. They are trying to penetrate the h western flank of the American line. The attack is virtually unceasing and our men are getting no rest. No mention is made of our having landed SOLOMONS - 2 reinforcements. EYE'‘’ITNESS A gripping story is told by an American reporter who took part in an air battle on one of our fly in fortresses. -Here are—s-cwme ^e-t-elrlrs Slu^.s j . rom t ne seven point seven machinegun oi a Jap Ziero smashed the navigator^ window and richochetted clear through the nose of our flying >) M # I lortress^ Another Zero in front speededfup to rake our formation." Then the report says: "I thought of saying the Lord's Prayer, but there was not time. As I stared at the on-coming Zero, a stream of tracer bullets burst from the tail gun of the fortress ahead. Immediately, the Japanese plane crashed, exploding on what our bombs had left of the airfield below." /JU v' // ThAt'-fa’ an airfield in the northern |olomon.5. ow? held strong-l? by the Japanese. -Tne oowiaspo*4en4 —that- it tfrkes a special kind of c-owage to -fly—ove^ EYEWITNESS -2 The task of the raid by the American fliers was to cripple Japan's massed air and sea power, which is attempting to blast the Marines out of the Solomons. The pilot, a major, asked the reporter with a smile whether he felt scared. The newspaperman says: ffI was petrified." "It seemed touch and go," he continues, "until we shot down the first Zero. Two others disappeared, then we went speeding straight down Bougainville Island toward Shortland Harbor, where the Japs have massed a fleet including two battleships, cruisers, destroyers and transports.n "The battleship saw us coining," he says, "ano opened up. One shell exploding below the boniber in which I had hitched a ride, and the eyewitness - 3 concussion b.< us up r hundred feet. Then we dropped our bombs,* he continues, "several hitting a cargo ship. A cruiser circling nearby got one bomb and another cargo ship was blazing in the tropical sunshine.^ Zeros came at us out of the clouds from all directions. We felt like a cat about to lose its ninth life. One of the Zeros exploded and another seemed to disintegrate, but / they kept coming. Then we ducked into large cumulous clouds just ahead of the Zeros that were on our tail." Another United Press correspondent reported X x JT 6 thatpixKii on Guadalcanal had turned into "unmitigated aell." Henderson field on that island has been under continuous assault by battleship forces, huf-e bomber leets and land artillery. The Japanese have put^eleven l.ou,«TiTinforce.enU ashore. fOne veteran sergeant of A arines said this about the ni.spap.r.en: 'If I'» foing 0 get it, I'l. going to get it. But I a. not going to EYEWITSESS - 4 get bumped off on the top of a hill like those dumb newspapermen with their cameras.” The American correspondents went all through the first six weeks cf the Guadalcanal action and shared all the hardships thxfc with the marines. They have learned to s A . j that JapaHe^i give their snipers extra credit for potting A an American reporter. So some have taken off their armbands which label them as correspondents. Yhe-ir’ break-fast • Gone of ■ttiiotrt butter, cove rod iith a black eon coot inn- -th-a-t—i -s-u^ ai°- an d— T^a rts ^ ra ina ge—the cranase of—a- jeepv Tli ismy chi « wash down wit-h e—oup of ch-lo«rn-at-ed and—s-tnrt y4iuiL.-4ray-. n-e^wspanerm 4ft- the Soloau)ns^," J}" The favorite song on the island is, Scy a ! ra^. r for Your Pal on Guadalcanal.” And the leathernecks mean it. hong _ kong For the second time in two days American bombers have raided Japanese installations on the British island of Hong Konq. They also dropped thei-p the Japanese ciA Canton. This ^as on A-e^d lynl. o a a & un ~ ^ ^ -------------- ------- ^ announced to^ay! by Lieutenant-General Joseph Stilwell, the Allied Commander in that part of the world. The American raid ^w-as eminently -e-u^cessfuli, fet completely destroyed the important power station at Hong Kong. This is described as a major stroke. That power station supplied to the entire Hong ^ong /\ island. While the Japanese were besieging the colony, hey were careful not to shell that plant, ihey wanted o use it after they had captured the island, and as a , i infact in their first landing atter of fact they took it intact J’OJ* /t , , __ r n -pt of the e4ty • 4^4e44 in 4he-iioi'tfe»estarn p« were 'started _and a.t lej^st oTTB^loud expdroTS-i-on^-W'd^ HONC_KCNG - 2 tre-ar-icU The Hong Kong raid was carried out without any interference. At Canton, Jap Zero planes and other fighter planes attacked the American hcmbers, and ten of thej» were destroyed. mmm MRS. R^. In London today, Mrs. Roosevelt had her first experience i~h an air raid atarm. Eye-witnesses report r is WT L that A paid no attention when the alarm sirens wailed^ajid went on talking. It was not a serious air raid. The only anti-aircraft guns that were fired were on the outskirts of the city. Last night Mrs.Roosevelt was the guest of Prime Minister and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Number Ten Downing 7fr Street. The First Lady says what impressed her most in A Britain tsx the spirit with which the women are doing A so much that is vitally different from what they have been accustomed to do. Also, by the way the British women stick to their jobs, no matter what the weather ^One of the sights she saw was that of female ground crews at the airdromes, women servicing planes, even doing repair work. ADD_MSSi-£* \ Later it turned out that enemy bombers had flown across the Channel and carried out a raid on the country around the estuary of the Thames. Two enemy bombers were shot down after the raiders had caused a few casualties. LEND-LEASE ri‘iT"e is news Iroin the Lend-Lease Administrator. Edward R. Stettinius, the Administrator, reports an extraordinary achievement. In the month of September nil alone, goods and services were sent and provided for our Allies to the tune of two-thirds of a billion dollars. lal new high record. M is quoted as an example A of what American free enterprise can do. It took totalitarian Nazi Germany six years to make her intensive preparations for war. From the day the war began she sii has been fdrcibly using the manpower, industrial capacity and agricultural production oi all Europe. American free enterprise, on the other hand, iooperating with the government, has converted the Inited States to a war-time basis in jus^ trae fraction of the time taken by the Germans. It has equipped an army +hp Navv. built a new merchant of millions, expanded the wavy, “arine, and turned out a record-breaking volume of farm LEND-LEASE 2 products. In short it has put the nation on a war footing with our armed forces now operatingon every continent and on every ocean. The Nazi empire employed the tyranny of government and authoritative management. While we have been working under a system of individual initiative. COFFEE Here is news about coffee that a lot of Americans will not like. Alter November Twenty-Ninth, one cup per day per person. Your ration will be one pound of the bean for every five weeks. And that only for people over 1/]^ fifteen. So you will not be able to chisel any extra pounds by demanding one for junior and another for little Mary and another for the baby. After November Twenty-First, there will be no sales for a week. That will give grocers time to stock up . Your su^ar rationing book will also be your coffee rationing book. Leon Henderson made a statement that this ration is not a drastic reduction. astonish V <0 __ u V' v \ *-^Hrt e ; aj f s w . /