< ! »«At\ If tne clai.Qs that Berlin makes tonight are true, the Bea nrmy right now is being engulfed in fearful military disaster. Last night, it was the southern Front, the Ukraine - witn i'Jazi drives smashing ahead in rapid advances.) A hugh encirclement Bast of Aiev, the Blitzkrieg thrusting to the •^kiz ' narrow necK of land that connects, Crimea wit the rest of Hussia. Tonight a new sector of the line is addea to the German claim of huge victories, the centey, the Smolensk area facing lAoscow. Berlin states that the'Fanzer forces have f, ---- ---- —- closea a giant trap east of bmolensk. That‘s where the boviet Forces have been launching their headline counter-attacks, day after day, for weeks. But now the Germans claim that armoced divislo;is, stabbing swiftly, have cut off a large part of Marshal T imoshenKO*s central army, berlin intimates that the Soviet counter attacks never did disturb the Blitzkrieg forced particulariy, and maintain that now the boviet flanking attacks have glaen place to a huge fiankihg operation by the hazis - a eat encirclement east of Smolensk, the area facing Moscow. Aiiu - 'c. In the Ukraine, the sweep of war is fantastic, if the Berlin accounts be true. The P:.inzer advance is described Axth the most extraU*<gant adjectives - 5*ixxixi±fciBit "irrisistible**, "on tne biggest scale", "gigantic scope", "successes that will surprise the world." The Berlin bu-ietin features the word. "surprise" - tne Uazi speed-^forces driving with astonisning swiftness, tne hed Arai>' defenders caught utterxy by surprise. "Leap frog L® fashipn" is one term they use to describe the jiethod|bf Operation in the Ukraine. The driving columns are describeu as being made up of the usual tank corps — and speed crumps, which lead the way. They dash from hilltop to hilltop. from bridgehead to bridgehead — halting only at night. A series of ligatning dashes - hence the leap frog idea The speed troops leave ail their heavy equipment beiiind and take only light anti-tank guns for artillery sup^^-ort They’re often many miles ahead of their r'anzer support tanks. nerlin claims they’re going, so fast they're not bothering to take prisoners, but concentro.-i:e instead on the capture of boviet btaff unics, hign officers - tnus leaving tied iirmy forces v<ifchout I Berlin uses phrase :logy that is decidedly picturesque. f|^ 1 1 Wiih - o directing co.uiaand. Berlin says that in some instances the speed troops x&XB drove so far to the hed Army rear that they caught tJoviet soldiers by surprise, aa they were boarding trains to move up to the front. One particular episode is described. The speed troops appeared suddenly, and the Boviet defenders had to biott up a bridge in such h_ste - that an armored train rushing to the Front cuuia not be informed. B q it plunged through the bro/5.en bridge anu. crashed Into the river. Buch are the tactics which, we are told, have resulted in the encirclement of a huge Boviet Force East of Kiev - a large section of Marshall Budenny's army. Lightning drives made from the ilorth and oouth of the city and ending pincers with the junction far to the East that closed the^^iisEta^ of the trap And the same thing applies to the drimea.^ It would apjjear that the Eanzers have cut the nartow Isthmus of that excee dintiy strategic peninsula. Wnd here's another case where the war gives us an educational look at the map. Consult your 0 - 4 Atlas and you may be surprised by the Geography of the Crimean r'cninsula. dote howi it stretches eastward to the Caucasus — where the Great oil fields are, i|nd^it' s the route fro^i Soviet nussia to the\tear Cast, where the British are. All of which puts a new emphalH-fl on Turkey, which also connects with the BritishV\ear Bast in such in important way. There are reports of a demand tiiat Bulgarian warships be allowed to jqi pass through the Bardanelles. But what kind of warships wuula Bulgaria have? The ansv;er is, ■‘•talian naval vessels sold to the Balkan Kingdom, and you kxiow what the meaning of the word “Sold" would be. lt‘s only too apparent that if the Sovi it Bed arm^ were to collapse, Turkey would be next on the hitler list. London appears with news on the bombing of Cairo - interest i-Hg because of the suppositions that Borne might be bombed in retaliation. The L^nd^n story is thc.t the axis planes which bombed the Cairo area on monday night did not blast the city proper. They hit objectives in tiie general Cairo area - ^ places ten miles out of the c±ty « bo, says London, there*s i CHII^ Today the republic of Chile received tv/o messages from Nazi uermany — tv«o that Y<ere rather in contrast. One Y#as congratulations t ro.ii Hitler to the Chilecui President on the occasion of tiie independence hay of the South American Republic. The other A'as news of the arrest of a number of Chilean citizens in Germany — this in retaliation for the arrest of Germans in Chile. This provokes a good deal of South American surprise, because the Germans in Chile were areested for violation v- bf the laVf's - which should not call for political retaliation. Lh4Ni>-LKADE The President's message on Lend-Lease v/ent to Congress today, and the figure is - five billion, nine hundred and eighty-five million doilars. \ early six billion - to provide nations fighting iMazi/Germany with materials of war. The seven bil!J.ions appropriaibed for Lend-Lease last Spring have already been exhausted. Co/more money to needed/ bringing the total to tnirteeri billion (^ollars I The I'residentl/al message states that the extra cash is necessary to continue jbne program until June thirtieth, Nineteen Forty—Three — \jh^ch would seem to mean that he expects the war to last that iohS least. All of nextysrar and halfway through thdyf'^^^J^iib year. The new appropriation would permit the administration H. to give Lend-Lease aid to Covijt Russia.x Today's message specifies that the money would be usea lo help any country whose defense the President considers•necessary to this Nation's defense. The President u;.es these words:- "iiddittonal funds are now needed in order that there be no interruption in the flow of aid to tuose countries wUo^a defea.e is. vital to our own.” And that couid UK include the Coviets. Hov^evar, ^^^oscow ia at present getting American aid in a difierent way - by the A irect lending of money. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau disclosed today that the ooviets got a bjndle of American casn more tnan a month ago - ten million dollars. He said the money was advanced against gold which the s Soviet ■»»» to ship to the united States over a period of ninety A % days - Stalin to send a hoard of the yellov* metal over here to pay off the loan. The Secretary described the aeal on these words, ”A new type of transaction." said it had be^jn made with the approval of tte Secretary of State C .rdell Hull. Asked whether any of the Soviet gold had yet been received — he said he did not Know. But he added that he thought the credit of i-^oscow was good. "They have met every bill they have contracted in this country," said he, "and^lived up to every one of their obj.igations in their dealings with me." The morgenthau statement of ten-miliions-already^ advanced—to-4ihe"Soviets followed an cinnouncement by Federal Loan Administrator uesse H. Uones. ^e told of more money to 1^0 loaned to wioscov^ — lifty million dollars^ altogether. This si LriIND-LrlA.SE ^ to be paid back in the form of stra|;egic raw materials produced in Soviet t\ussia, articles needed in the Defense Program over here The Americ:ji Region today adopted a resolution Ccilliiig f*or^^atlonaX unity on all fronts* and the veteri ns xs received a message from i^^rime j^inister Churchill of Great britain. Churchii-L "Viie thank you for the help you are bringing A to our common cause - proviuing the weapons for our forces and bringing much needed aid to those who toil in our great w arsenals. One iiiterestlng point was brought up by ^resident Gre^n of the American Federation of -^abor. In an address to the Convention ~ ixe^said that labor was being attacked because X A it seeKs better v.'ages, wnile the soldiers and sailors are getting just a few dollars a month. The ^resident of the A.F. of L. ans*.ered that by saying:- The very fact that members of workers* families had been called to service makes it necessary for the remaining v<age earners to get more money The American Legion reaffirmed its opposition to Coiuiuunisra. -t^reviously, the veterans had declared in favor of aid to the doviets. But they're against the Red doctrines just the same, and touay stigmatized Communism., Fascism and I^aziism 1 LEX} lOi^l - k> as equalxy and dangerous, also - they asked the states of the Union to join in outlawing the Co.,iiaunist party. Viitn decisions made on these public issues, the Legionnaires proceeded to elect their National commander. The successful QbJCidilasLte^^Tm^i^^Tin otambaugh of Fargo, North Dakota, of the Iretei'sins for the coming year. /V T i I I r f oil It was announced in V\/ashington today that restrictions on the Sales ol gasoline in the liastern otates will not be removed - they won*t abolish the curfew rule against night sales, and they'll keep in force the reduction of deliveries to filling stations. The anno ncement was made by Secretary of the Interior Oil Coordinator Ickes. first declaration we*ve had from him in some time - the oil Coordinator has been away for a month's vacation. In a press conference he said : ”To lift all restrictions and yell 'come and get it' would be stupid.” But what about the report of the Benate Committee- declaring tnat there was no Eastern shortage of oil? Coordinator Ickes gave figures to siiow that gasoline stocks in the East are now two milj.ion seven hundred thousand bari.*els less than tney were at tne same time last year - a drop of twelve ind a half per cent, and he added that the sales of gasoline are eleven per cent greater than last year. ”I have no comment on the iftaloney Co.:.mittee fte,jort”, said Ickes, ”0ther than to say m t- -- J 31 ' 1 *‘ -i Hi !!ii ti ill lU m 1 OIL - k, that ta3 whole th^ng is in the lap of time - and time will tell the story-" H*. made reference to the proposed pipeline from the Texas Oil Fields to i>iew Jersey - the project that has been halted because it can't get steel. Coordinator Icices made the following statement: "X can't explain the action of the priorities and allocation Board in turning down the application for steel plate for tne fifteen hundred mile pipeline^" said he, I There was a new Kind of rain at Aurora, Indiana, today - a rain of five dollar bills. It happened like this. The Baltimore and Ohio Limited roared throught the to'wn, and somehow a huge mail bag crammed with five and one dollar bills, fell out of the baggage car and under the wheels of the train. There it was ripped apart, the wind caught the money - and thousands of bills went blowing. One man grabbed three hundred dollars* worth. The station agent stuffed five hundred dollars into his pockets. Tnen the local post master took charge of the situation and began retrieving the cash, getting it back from the somewhat reluctant finders. At last reports, he had recovered two thousand, dollars* worth. But he can't tell if that's all, because he doesn't know how luuch money was in the feag to begin with. ftUQDTEt\;D At • Kisco, New !iork, tester Ferris, sixty-eight years old, is in a hospital - being treated for wounds inflicted by two roosters. He relates, in a fe^^ble voice, that he has a couple of the fightingest roosters in j^ii^icounty, cantankerous and mean tempered. Several times during the past week they attacked him with their spurs, and one slash became infected. That weakened him, and he collapsed yesterday - when the roosters assau Ited him again. They ripped Kim so badly with their spurs that he lay helpless. The local st^ cops have captured the roosters and locked them in a coop. They're likely next to be in the soup. in \ Ihere* s a soiciier in tn© mcineuvers down south v^ho may have to listen to a few words from his top sergeant* I suppose he’ll be patient about it - for he’s a Chinese- american solaier. and the celestials of tne Far^East are renowned for their impassive patience. However, a fe w high ranging officers in the episode may be expected to diapiay gamfeittg" uffiouwK:ln tlm apioode way tee-eitpeetod display some little annoyance. - and you can’t blame them. The second arm. in Louisiana was engaged today in a hignly strag;egic maneuver, .armored columns were moving to the attack in the war games. The Chinese-american soldier. somehow, became separated from his outfit. They were a few miles ahead, oo he decided he’d thumb a ride to catch up with them. Along the road came a powerful motorized column. led by a scout car full of high officers - on their w'ay to tL critical point of battle. I'hat wasjpirt the Chinaman selected for thumbing a ride, iou know - going that way with f'2^ your thumb. 'I J w * \ /l\ i SOLDIER - i. The officers in the armored car, with no thought ol hitch—iiikers in mind, thought he v»as a military police directing them down a crossroad• Eo they made tiie turn at a fast clip, and Kept speeding along, looking for the battle. They went roaring for thre? miles, before they suspected that something must be wrong - no battle. Then they turned back, and found out what had happened. So that*s how the generals were late for the armored attacK - all because of a Chinaman trying to catch a hike 7 % 1:1 ri I** I f -a II H M li |i