GOOD EVERING, EVERYBODY:
There's a bulletin from the enemy side, which
aa7■ ean
something -- or it may not. The lazi controlled
radio tonight stated:
•There are rumors to the
effect that Allied operations alrP.ady have started
in the Mediterranean
area
of Southern Prance, but
there is still no
confir■ation
of
aay sort.•
•
Invasion of Prance
fro■
the South~
I
a■
passing tbat
along just in case; you never can tell.
Tonirht's late in,aeieo B6lletia aieeleeee
taa:t,..
t,ae
Ge,manQ have been threwiag
atraog armored reservH
iRte
the heiile fep Caen.
~~~
Tod
a
y the fighting was a fantasy.,.. not
I\
war,
but
of weather.
A summer thunderstorm hit
the
battlefield with
a
cloudburst of rain, flames of
lightning, and claps
:
of thunder that drowned out
eve
the roar of the artillery.
Through the drenchlng,
blin
in
and deafening
tempest, British troops thrust
~~
for ard
dog
P
edly,
~
scored gain• that brought
them
to th out r suburbs of the town of Caen
a
Montpo11QPY
's
fgpe,ee.
have driven a salien;J
to
tae
11ntAwest of
M,e
·
e i ~
now has
the
Germ n esca
oe
-corridor
to ten miles.
ind
the main
h .
h t
·d
are
1·n
the
ran e
of
Allied
1
5
·
·
ys
in
t
·
corr1 or
artil
ery
~~aeri
on a
stee ride.
FRANCE -
J
'
~
Great as was
ou~a•alll\tjf over the
capture of Cherbourg, there •ill be almost as gr~at
reason for triumph when Montgomery's men
tkz■••
tbro,
k ~
the Germans out
.
of Caen.
the great core
~
~
;...
~,.~
.
Ar~sistanceA ~ t h e Buns have the cream of their
shock troops.
·es have des,royed 1 rge numbers
tJi"""?
Al..
~ , & J _ . . _ _
of
tanks, but • - -. .
••continues to pour 1 n - .
panzer divisions. The British below Caen are
a&iti
tonight
battling against ~be
greatest
concentration
of
number one enemy armor ever thrown against
the ■•
GERMAN
GENERAL
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._..._._
Berlin officially
announces
the death of the
German Commander-in-Chief of the
Invasion Front.
Be
was Colonel-C?eneral Friedl!rich
D~llaann,
a name
·
that
has not occurred prominently in the
news.
In fact,
it
was the first notice we have had that there was a
General Dollmann in
commana_~n t~e Second Front.
-h
heard
about Rommel,
and above
hi ■
Von Runds
-edt, now
Dollmann,--&,.t•s all a bit confusing.
The truth
i~
w.e
have never
been
clear
about
just how th German
anti-invasion
om~an
was
arran
6
ed.
~
announcement d
_
oes not say
what
caused
la
erlin
&/-o-
the death
off
1
Ptli ■ •••• I
r
I
If-
Nazi
news
,....
"
broadcast describes it as •sudden•.
AR-
lhe assumption~
is he was killed
1
u
I ;
in an
.
Allied bombing of
4fi
ii:
German
Headquarters in Northern France,"
tit~
l!aapptzti
c::i-
?
11
s a tank officer who
on Tuesday.
leeae2sl
Do
mann wa
played a prominent part
in the fall of France.
~
~~
t
amaebed ihr
r•-
e-s • m
am:!@
d:=
a
f
~
•
e e
f
Q
e
P■
a
B=
t,
an•
8
1s"
a
"
t.
8
E
1
r
t
1
th
e
d
r
1
o e t
11
at
b
1
s
a
gt.
t ,
d
i
a
as
b
c
11-
e =Mne,
ron
n
•• Ike Allies.
And here's the irony -- Dollmann and
his tank force, after the decisive break-through, raced
on and it was they who captured Cherbourg.
low --
'
bow the tide of war has changed. C!olonel General
~to~VVttJ.~
Doll•~~oaolRa
aalf&■(iazi
Commander-in-Chief against
the invasion, -- the first great event of which has
been the Allied capture
of
Cherbourg.
o/
1/
Be1 e• a re-to,." of ~ n
th Ch
e
erbourg caapaign,
somebody made a aistake. But it turned out ail right_
with eleven astonished Aaer1·cans
t
cap uring an air
baae,
two hundred and sixty-five Geraans-and a dog.
You'd
think from the tone of the stor7 that what they
appreciated most was - the dog.
One of those clever
0
canines, an
.
eduated pooch that can do tricks - always
dear to the American heart.
It all began when an order was given to Captain
William Gletlhill of Phillipsburg, Bew Jersey - who waa
instructed to take a look at an abandoned German flyin&
field.
Captain Gledhill is an engineering officer, and
his job would be to get the deserted air~port into
shape for American planes to use.
,
Bothing violent or
perilous about that apparently, and the Captain picked
a small party to go with hi• - a nondescript outfit
consisting of six
sailors •
...,()ff
soldiers, a navy lieutenant and three
~-e.-
they started in ,\
1ev.pil.c
;tf
jeeps.
( A couple o
f
miles from the airport they ran into
lf\.lA-1
a bunch of American infantryJ<,so}ct:t;;;• who said - that
7
PRISONERS
---
-
---
- --
-2-
this was the farthest point of their advance.
Which
I
sounded a little peculiar, because the order indicated
that
the
Nazis had been driven
_
fro■
the flying f i e 0
1JThe
jeeps rolled on and then
ca■e
to some French
peasants who said that at the field a large force
of
Germans held a fort in between the hangars.
Which
sounded still more peculiar - could there have been
some mistake in the order concerning the deserted
air base? Di
l
military orders ever blunder?
Captain Gledhill couldn't believe it. So on
be
went with
his jeeps and when they got near the field,
what
should greet them but a fusillade of machine gun
s
fire.
Nobody
hurt, except for a few bumps and scratche
as the
whole
party hit the d"rt.
t,bouaend
salloa
gaseliae
1t•••s1
t••
lay
while the
machine
gun bullets . . . .
TL.~·
F
t .
to time
w
shouted to the
Germans,
in
rom
1me
A
En
g
lish, ordering them to surrender.
Each
yell of
his
was answered
with
a
burst of aachine gun fire_ until
the last one.
Once more he shouted - •surrender!• And
then back came a loud voice in broken English~
a
thick
German accent.
Yes, the Germans would surrender.
They
bad seen some American tanks, apparently.
•1
told them
to
put a white flag on
a
pole,•
relates Captain Gledhill, •and three
of
them
came out
with a flag.
Pretty soon the rest appeared,
.
straggling
out by
twoa and threes and dozens, until there were
.
two hundred and sixty-five heinies standing there with
-
.
their hands raised.•
All those prisoners,- and,a dog.
The pooch was a big sturdy boxer,
a
handsome
fellow, and the Americans looked at him with the
interest of a nation of dog lovers,
A
German suddenly bellowed:
•Plotz!•
And the
dog sat up, extending his fore-paws.
dell.gbted, a
trained dog.
They
The Americans
were
t d th Poo ch for a mascot.
And
now
at
promptly confisca e
e
-
b
you're likely
t~
""'- an American outfit near Cher ourg,
••
Ano
the
pooch
sits
up and
he~~
t~e
eomMand,
·
wp1otz.
takes notice.
ROBOTS
------
In London, there is an outbreak of newspaper
Criticism against the censorship that conceals the
Damage done by the rocket bombs.
British editors are
saying the suppression of information about
ca ■ualties
and buildings wracked is doing no good to British morale
which doesn't have to be puffed up by secrecy.
All of whi~b coincides with the worst disaster
in the fifteen day assault by the rockets.
Last night
one of the robots hit a nursery home where twenty-six
children
were
being cared for.
And today rescuers were
digging into the ruins, seeking bodies of surviv6rs.
Thus far eight children have been brought out alive-
and five adults of the nursery ome staff.
ADD
RUSSIA
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The advance of Soviet troops over the
Berezina is a historic spectacle.
It was there that
the Russians one hundred and thirty-two years ago
devastated the grand army of hapoleon.
Tonight we
have news that the Red Armies are less than thirt
miles from ~ins
in the Northeast.
To the south
another Soviet column has captured a city sixty
miles to the south.
The Russians have outflanked
Putolsk and are now in Old Poland at the northern
end of the front.
Moscow
reports that in the first week
of that Rod Army attack on Bazi formations in lbite
Russia they have captured one hundred and eighty-four
thousand two hundred and thirty Germans.
The
operations of the Red Divisions in that part of
the line have proceeded so succes~fully that they
are
•~t•
about to accomplish the surrounding of
a■z
no fewer than twelve German divisions of what
is
left of them~ between Berezina and the
I•
Drut River
East of Minsk.
In short, the Red Armies are driving
!RR B~,e!l -
2
the Germans back wherever they attack and helping
to make things more difficult for the
lazia
at every
point of the
coapass.
At this moment Governor Dewey is on a
special train bound for Albany.
And
what a scene
there
will
be at the capit 1 of New York State
when
he and his party arrive there tomorrow morning shortly
before noon.
With him
are Mrs. Dewey,
Herbert
Brownell, the new chairman of the Republican National
Committee,
Dewey's
personal staff, and
.
thirty-five
newspapermen--count them, thirty~five. That's
one of the penalit•s you have to pay as candidate for
President.
You have never less than twenty or thirty
newspaper reporters around. you.
DEWEY CHANCES
-------------
As
I
prophisied on Monday, Herbert Brownell
of N.
T.
has been made National Chairman of the
G.O.P. and what kind of a time will
•e
have
8
,ctins
his man?
While chatting with former
Presidential
c~ndidate Alf Landon the day after the convention, the
Kansas political leader, who is still
~uite
active in
national political affairs,
made
the observation that
Dewey and Bricker can be elected if they can win two
states, New York and Pennsylvania.
Landon, who ~as tre
reputation
of
being an exceedingly astute man, made
the further remark that
a
candidate can be elected even
if he loses one
of
the two, New York or Pennsylvania, bu
he ~an't be elected if be loses them botb.
Well,
on the train, a group of us
who were
re-
turning from the convention got to discussing that
ever interesting t~pic of the electoral votes.
Here's
the say one member of the
rty
a
ded
them up,
much to his
own satisfaction: Said he:
Let's assume
that
Dewey
can count on
the
eighty-two
electoral votes
DEWEY
CHANCEC
-
2
...
-----------
vote
of the
ten
st
a
tes
that
went Re ublic
~
n
in
Nineteen Forty:
Color d
·
a
0 ,
six; Indiana, fourteen;
Iov
,
a, eleven;
Kansas,
nine; Maine, five;
Mic1iigan,
nineteen/
Nebraska,
seven;
North Dakpta,
four; South
Dakota,
four; Vermont, three.
The, if
Dewey
carries
New York with its forty-seven votes; YassaGhusetts
with
seventeen;
Connecticut with eight; New Jersey with
sixteen that will give him added eighty-eight votes int
the
New
En
g
land and
ltaiiis Atlantic Coast states.
Now with the added influenc of Governor
Bricker's Midwest
Popularity,
if
he carries Ohio
with its twenty-~ix votes, and the adjaoent states of
Pennsylvania with thirty-six; West Virginia wit eig~t;
and ne
a
rby
Wisconsin
with twelve
he
t
ll add seventy-
four votes more
making
two hundred and forty four
altogether.
As two hundred and sixty-six are needed,
California's twenty-two votes alone would be sufficient
to carry the election.
t Call.fornia, Dewey could win
But even withou
if
instead he should pick up twenty-two, such
.
as
four from New Hampslire, three from Dealw
a
re, eleven
from
K
entucky and four from lontana.
That's the way the Republicans were t lking
on their way home from the convention.
T ey are con-
vinced that
D
ewey and Bricker h ve a goo
chance.
May-
be so, Maybe so.
All I know for certain is t~at it's
time to turn my gavel over to you Bugh.
Our
ass
on
ainan
re
a
nnounced
-
nine
th
o
us
seen hun
d
n
d
fifty-to to d
a
te.
a
rine
s a
n
d
army
troo
s
h
ve
l
ost th
a
t many in killed,
"
·
ounded nd missin
.
Fourt
e
n hundred
k
illed, sev
e
nty-four hundred
w
ounded,
ei
gh
t hu
d
ed
n
ei hty-seven
missin
.
These C
"'
sualties
/
rin
th
ief ca
mp
ai non S
a
ipan a
r
e
an
indic
a
tion of
the vio
l
nee
of
th
fighting
there,
and
t
o
d
y's
news
presets the s
~
me picture - Americ
a
n a
d
v
~n
ces •
ag~inst
bitter resist
a
nce.
The
focus of the action
is at
the poc
k
et
we
mentioned yesterday - "Hell's
pocke\"
they are C
a
llin
This is
des
ribed
as
a vast scoop in the surface of the
it.
i
l
·t f1·ft
e
en yards
lon
and five
earth, lik
an
mm
~
nse
hundred ya ds
id
e. And there the Americans are battling
a
ainst n
iwxi•ixai■ x••• invisible enemy.
No
si
g
n of
Ja
ps
, e
xce
.
t the roar of mortars
a
n
d
m
chine
uns,
tit.
ex
pl
osions
of
h 1
1
n
o
ri
n
,
i n t u l l
ts
.
.
,..
"
he
J
s are
I
0
AN -
--------
hidden
·n c
e
11::
tha
,
line
t
e
si es
of Hell's
P
oe et -
a
n
invi
ib
nemy
,
KU
I
LE
------
The
ord
from th
e
north
Pacific
is action in a
f
o
0
rful United States ta
the
J~ps
in th::_ Kurilesrhe
g
uns of warships r a k ~
~
enemy
ba
se
at
the southern tip of Paramushiro.
"
"
Island.
he
c~nnon
a
:
ing
l
asted
for thirty minutes, and
five
thousan
n
shells fired at t a r g e t i ( ~ the
fog.
Th
J
P
a
oe
,
r to be u
to some
more
tricks -
this
ime
in Korea.
1
h
at
quaint
and of the Far East
h
b
en
unnPr
J
p
domination for
a
lon
g
time - ever
i
h
da
ollo
in
P
the
R
u so-Japanese
ar
at
the
be
g
i ninr
o·
t i century.
The
Koe
ns h
av
e never
r
s
i
ned themselves
to the Ja
pa
nes
e
yo e, and in the
pr
sent
increased their a
g
itation for freedom .
.
The Korean under
g
round is o
p
er
a
ting with sabotage and
attacks a
a
inst the Japs. So now the Tokyo tricksters
fi
ure
they've got
to do
omething about it - and
they
ar
a
in
the Kore ns
an
o
fer.
The
word
ita
s
in
g
ton is th
a
t the
Ja s are
·
th
th
·11·
to re
s
tore the old
say1na
,
t
ey
are
Vi
l
1n
Ko
re
n monarchy -
ive the Koreans an emperor, a
sov
erei
n such
a
they
had
in t h e ~ d
a
ys when the
country
w
s
c
alled
the
"hermit
kin
_
dom.fl
Theoretically,
Korea wou
l
d
b com
e inde
p
endent, but in
r
lity the
r
-----
K
o
r
a
n
r
"
,
u
d
b
eco
m
·
t
--=1-
JUS
a
nother pu
p
pet.
~n
t
nis tne
J
~
ne
se ere f
ol
l
o
i
n
th
e p
rece
d
ent of what
t
h
e
di
in
J
a
n
c
huria
-
wh
e
~ th
e
y set u
p
a pu
pp
et st
a
te
ith
a
s
t
oo
em
eror.
F
o
~
th t job
they resurrected
~
t
h
e
e uli
a
r in
d
ivi u
a
l
n
a
med Henry Pu-Y•i, who had been,
in
c
t, the boy
e
m
p
eror of Lhin
a
, the last of the Manchu
---
-
revolution
.c:=t
For
y
na
y
t
a
n
d
ous
ed by the
C
hinese
►
~
Xor
e
f:.
t
he Ja
ps
')
i
(;
ed on
a
m
e
mb
of the
old
rayal
house
"
of
t
ha
t
country
-
the
one time
Crown Prince,
heir
• • t,l!e
bilPQRe
whom
the
Japs
themselves
OVerthi·@W.
He.
He~is rince
Yi
L
mm
h
o,
s
ome years a
o,
w
a
s
forced to marry a
J
~k
~
•
-,-:-he Japs
w
re
sueaiag~,
a
p
anese
P
rince
s
s.
•na-0
1..,
ine
-
keepin
BPioce
Yi
E ■ m,
the
former Cro
w
n Prince
of
Korea,
in
res
rve
for some situation
that
might
arise.
A
nd
n
o
, w
e
ar
sit ation
+old, the war has br u ht
a
bout the
t
Y
l
·
n tp
asi
pacify
in w
h
ich t
h
e
J
.
s
a
e
r
the
K
o
r
~
n
s
by o
fr
r
in
to
rest
o
r
their old
t
h
i
r
f
rm r
o
n
l
rinc
e
Yi
•
mm to
b
co
me
mon
rchy -
PfN
:lor.
EN
AR
-------
Copenh
n, c
I
it
1
of
Denmark
is
arali
e
oni
g
rt
ya
general st~ike.
Te
Danes
have revolted
a ainst
the Nazi supressors and have
ha strun
g
the
Germans
in Denmark.
The inrabitants
of the
D
nish
ca
ital
have
stopped
all
transport~tion,
a
and cut off
w
er and
electric~!
power.
They have even
succeeded
in stopping
ir serveice.
All this happens at
a
timely moment for the
fortunes of the United Nations.
The Germans b~ve been
obliged to withdraw
tz ■ •F••
troops from Denmark since
the invasion of Normandy.
One
dispatch
goes to the length
of
reporting
that the
Germans
have only four t ousand troops to
cope with the Dqnes,
plus
fifteen hundred of the
Gestapo.
Now, Hugh, it's your turn for a moment.