fACI[IC f, :f . - ~ - ~ , dA 1 ' Q ;::;;- ◄-1, - 2. -i--, ,-11/4.- . ----_,- ~iiiiiiiiiiiiiii ~ r. Here is som e thing fro ■ Tokyo vi·a Berlin, which is ordinarily no recommendation for truth or accuracy. But this one is probably correct. The Berlin radio q uotes a Japanese Navy s p okesman as making the following statement: •The position of the two axis powers, GermanJ and Japan• , says the Tokyo spokesman, 'is very much alike•. Meaning - Japan in about as bad a shape as Ger ■ any. It is perhaps an instructive thing to be noticed that neither of tbe two enemy powers, right now, is painting any golden picture of the war, so far as A"( they~ concerned. An ace German military commentator ~ today stated that the course of the campaign in France •aa under■ ining the foundations of Germany's military power. And Japanese propaganda, too, · has been presenting a gri ■ picture to the Mikado's people. Are they telling the truth to talk up desperation? Or might it indicate , . ~~~ ~ e a t ~ ~ t • ~ u t of t ~ ? ~e~; ~ Japanese pes-:'i.m~t. could only be deepened by today's news, with word of the heaviest raid of the war f!QlFIC - 2 against the big enemy base in the Dutch East Indies - Balaahera. A hund ed and thirty-five tons ot bombs hit that island, which is now virtually neutralized as a stronghold. EBtliEIULlliAHCE To the southeast of Paris, down in central France, is the old city of Sens (San_ nasal). Look it up on your map tonight. It is spelled - S-E-1-S. ~robably you'll say• hy, the Americans can't be anywhere near that locality. It's way around and beyon~ _:jTia• Uf':It•s ~ German border. only a hundred and - sixty milh~he A The Americans can't possibly have got~ that far. It would aean an advance of more than sixty miles fro ■ the last place they were reported~£, ~ So why talk about of Sens?• onight 1 s late dispatch froa the warfront...-which announces the American capture of Sens this ~fternoon. The place was take b fast rollin 0 American tanks, which are simply running wild over the country south and southeast of Paris. At the s me time, to the north of the city on the Seine, allied armored forces kept driving on -- today. They are smashing in the direction ot the great port of Le Havre. in a sweeping move that threatens to encircle the German forces on the Channel Coast. The lat st is the capture of another fa ■ous place - Deauville, that fashionable ~esort of seekers. The advance of Canadian troops today swept right on i.n . to Deauvil~l:,-e: · •:_--.......... - - - - - - - - - - --...-....__ _ _.,, WilltlUi FBAW - 2 Le avr n a ytteep· e c,(11an One big objective of that drive is - the rocket coast, the channel shore from which the Nazis launch their robot planes against London, which aeans everything to the British. The rockets were bad today, and London is sweating it out. Waiting eagerly for the capture vf the area fro ■ which the Germans launch their robot planes. The London newspapers tonight express the belief that the rocket coast may fall to the Allies oYer the weekend - thereby reliev~ng ~ondon of much of the horror of the robot bombing. Day after day we have had high military opinion that the Germans in France are finished, and that was repeated today by a military spokesman who stated: •Henceforth the Allied armies will advance vi~tually at will in France. There is nothing that JORtHIRN FRANCE - 3 oan stop us at the present time,• said he. Bere:s an explantion of the enemy collapse. e are told that there were two factors, an merican gamble, and a German miscalculation. The Aaerican gamble was to venture so sweeping an advance after the first break-through. i t . was t.alta.s a ehan1e wibk ~ materials through to support so ambitious an offensive? It was cutting it fine, touch and go with supplies, but the gamble won. The German ■ iscalculatiou was in underestiaati the amount of 4.rmored force that the Americana could throw iito the great sweep which swung around like a scythe toward Paris. The Nazi Command didn't believe we had the power to carry it out, and at the same time defend the long extended lines. -ia tb.ey staked 4heir• t arongb _ w-itli aona\e • ati»a.eka..... t,,e f · t, ,. e Ba t:,. ti he Ame 1 i e an• e p 1 it, the 1\ me~ g an er aa s 1 a 4 • aati the - 8 b~ff 4.o aela off the coante1 =attiaeka, aati • t. ~- ~ •we~ Heaae. \Ae C e r ~ t.ae eame H R\intte ona a&van+e. * They have virtually lo , et France. &vea tile area is 8 ee bi Olli · of t»ae - cr.o11at»ry waiea tae• Allied • in•••~oa b,s n01'-7et t anohed, are sona , fer tiba la1i .. pe.aple tbeeael»ea .. . Stor.y after story tells how the French Ar.my of the Interior is capturing cities, •••• occupying wide spaces oi country, taking over from . the diBorganized eneay. In Par 1 s, '-8 • eX"NIJ1 - p.lJ-ae-.....,MiP,&,-4rM-D"utta+a.a i uurreot i en iRue➔i-onight we are told that the P . artisan forces . inside the c - apital are no , w battling the German garrison with light artillery. This, as · the Allied more than half encircled. In the southern invasion, the offensive races on so rapidly that the news can hardly keep up with it. The key word down there in ~outhern France is -- Marseilles, the second French city and the greatest French harbor. Today American and rrench troops gave an exhibition of ■ ilitary speed in driving on Marseilles, and last reports place thea within three miles of the city. They are cutting around the big port, and have it virtually surrounded. So now there will be a siege of Marseilles as there is of Toulon - the great Naval b a s e ~ the German garrieon is still stubbornly defending •. _ _ _ _ _ _ ~ The news dispatches tonight are filled with the name s of places captured in southern France today, important highway junctions, stretches of railro . d, everything that goes to make a military success on a large scale. British General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Supreme Al l ied Com m ander in the Mediterranean announces that the invasion area in so u thern France ' §OUTHERH FRA~ - ~ 2 - - -------------7 no• comprises ■ ore than two thousand square ailes -- that auch territory captured in the course of brief days. That figure was given out some hours ago, and it is obsolete by now -- so fast is the going. lQLLOI ~QUTB FRANCE One of the picturesque turns in the aouth France invasion is what they call - the battle de luxe This is being fought around the city of Cannes, that faaous aillionair& resort on the Riviera. ----;-----__,; United Presa correspondent R ynolds Packard tells how A ■ erican troops have a d ' az ling view ot what looks like fairyland, sailing Mediterranean sunshine. They can see clearly t e bright colors of the playground city, ' which at nds out in what. Packard calla - •clear Teohni~ lor relief, l o oking like a study in red and whit Hotel, the Hotel Carleton aost sumptuous of gaaglin only to llonte Carlo. They see the Grand the Casino, one of the second in fa ■ e All around Cannes the country is dotted wit villas, Boll1wood plus, luxu~• villas with garden and swimming pools. And theseAGermans are defending Jf •ith~their stu born tactics of war, using the Vil l as as pill boxes, strong points, machine You can imagine what th e artillery does to the vil l as GLLQI SOIJTR lBAIC! - 2 in the battle de luxe. Packard tells of American patrol units which, in his words - 'Were blasting out German snipers in a pink villa overlooking the sailing blue Mediterranean.• A ■erican machine guns firing as he says, fro ■ beneath •Bed and white striped awnings oYer the porch ot another villa which was lily white with a red tiled roo ~aptain Edward Toaasik ot le• Bedford, laaaachusetts, gave his iapreasion in these words: 'This is really swanky fighting. These expensive Yillas being used as pill boxes beats anything I have run into so tar in this war.• Here's the climax of the battle de luxe. ~ At one place Pack found Privates Joe Zawadski of Newark, New Jersey, and John Devanie ot Alexandria, Louisiana, in a fox hole, a fashionable fox hole, undoubtedly the ritziest foxhole of the war. The two G.I ~ s were lying in it, and above them, shading them fron the sun, stood a striped beach parasol. Private Zawadski of Newark sa : d: IQLLPJ saD!B_[BAICE - 3 would be swell, if it weren't for so many aachine gun bullets whizzing around here. It's alaost as good a resort as Atlantic City.• • Over in the in•asion, the Ninth Air Foroe is tangled in a journalistic battle with newspapers. Today the Bew York Post ■ ade a protest both to Washington and Supreae Allied Headquarters in Europe, complaining against the ousting of its correspondent, Stanley Frank. He was given the gate, along with Lee Mccardell of the Balti ■ ore Sun Papers, Gordon Gaamack of The Des Moines Iowa Register-Tribune and John Groth, an artist for Parade magazine. They were assigned to cover the Ninth AiT Force, and now have been handed their walking papers. What's the trouble? 0 The Bew York Post in its protest today, states that the Public Relations Qfficers of the Ninth Air Force were sore because the newsmen wrote too many stories about the i■fza■ Infantry Artillery and the tanks -- and not enough about the Hinth Air Force. Assigned to cover the exploits ot the planes, hitting the Nazis, they wrote more about G.I. Joe on the ground, mid the roaring cannon and the rolling armor. QQRBISPONDENT - 2 linth Air Force officers took the attitude that the newsaen were eating Ninth Air Force grub, riding around in Ninth Air Force jeeps, and therefore, should write about the Rinth Air Force. In other words, -- don't bite the hand that's feeding you. It's easy to see the Yiew of those Press Relations Officers. Any newsaan knows that, if he ia being wined and dined by the press agent of iulphuric loap, the idea ia to gi•e a writ~-up to iulphuric loap. You don't get the expensive dinner and beverages as a persuasion to write about Botstuff Hair Tonic ■• Yes, it all seeas reasonable - so what ~ s the . .. a~swer sot the correspondents over there? They aake a charge that's enough to tear the heart out 0 1 an7 newpaperaan. Rot only do they allege that the Public Relations Officers act like h!gh pressure press agents plugging a product, but they also add the following - that the officers have gone into competition with the newspapermen, and sent stories of their own for press release, without giving the newsmen at the front a chance at the stories. 0 And that's as i t the press agent for Sulphuric Soap has a really good story, a hot headline. But, instead of giving it to the reporters, he hands ~ m ~ n d rate ••'•••J and writes the hot headline hiaself and a ■ax sells it. All in all, it woula seea that the Rinth Air Force press relations has got tangled in journalistic snarl. tlTAII The story that the Ger■an■ have seized Marshal Petain is expanded with some details today. le hear tha the Bazis arrested the aged head of the Vichy govern■ en on Sunday, togeti er with a number of his officials, and took them to Geraany. They say tba ong been prepared to grab Petain, should the worst coae to the worst/in France. The worst has come to the very worst, and aof,hey carried hi• off - no doubt aeekina aoae sort of advantage in holding the world war Marshal who today is execrated tor his part in the surrender of France and tor his policy in collaborating with the lazi conquerors. agssu Another big city seized by the Buasiana, this one i1t in Rumania, the city of Iasi. Announced tonight by Stalin, the capture constitutes a major yictory. For Iasi is the second largest city in Bu■ ania, and it is on the way to those Ba■anian oil field• which are Hitler's only supply of natural petroleum. The Russian, approached Iasi weeks ago, but ~he Geraan resistance was so strong that they were halted. Row they have saashed through and taken the cit -- in one ot two great drives to knock Bu■ ania out of the war. The second offensive is to the south of a place called Tigbina, and a forty-three mile advance is reported in that sector. __.. There is ore in di ation of Bulgaria trying to ge t out of the war. This tim e w have a downright statement by th e Bulgarian Foreign Minister. Turkey quotes hi as sayin g that Hulgaria was doing everything poss ibl e to come to some peace arrangement with the United Nations. And he added that the Bulgarian Government has withdrawn its troops from Jugoslavia. The war news cert a inly is g ood, but it causes us to huve som e bad news on the domestic side. Today in Washington Major General Lucius Cl~y, iiac director of the Army Service Forces, recited a fe w unpalatable truths about war production . Be said that during July, there was the sharpest kind of lag in the manufacture of various vital items, as comp ared with June. In some cases, the July output was fifty-three per cent less than the June output. As for August - similar ne s is in prospect. The General blamed the drop in produ~tion on aanpower shortages, fatigue,and,optimism about the war. The good news has, in his words, "dulled the sense of urgency". .!!A!Hill To ay in ,ashington, they arrested a radio announcer, and we have an explan at ion of 8 most eculiar sound effect th a t was heard on a local ashington program. Thi s sound effect consisted of what is com mo nly called - a dull thud. That was heard, and then the announcer was no~ longer heard. Today's police action charges that announcer Tony Wakeman was hit over the head with a piano leg by announcer Sam Brown, - hit so hard that ten stiches were taken in his scalp. The trouble, it seems, started when announcer Brown, on his program, ave out a bit of news about a horserace at Waehington Park - the mutual totals for the third race. This particular announcement, as it happened, had long been a daily feature on the program of Tony akeman. Brown scooped •:akemen, and ,·akeman was incensed. He went to the studio, and slapped Brown in the face. Wakeman is a big hun d red and ninety pounder. Brown is five feet four, a nd weighs a hundred OARR L - 2 --- -- - and tw e nty-ei g h t p oun ' s . So they w e ren't pr o perly matched for a re g ular fight. f t er this, ak e man ent on the air with his own program . And t d ay's ch arge alleges that while he was broadca sti n g , Br wn entered with a,•••• piano leg in h is hand. He went up behind his rival announcer, who a a t the microphone - pnd conked. That was the sound effect• ich astonished the listeners - in - the dull thud. OIL -- The question of the oil agreement between the United S t atvs an Gre t Britain is b e i ng consider ed in Congress. An d now we have some comment - a letter to Senator Connal l y, hairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. J. Howard Pew, President of the Sun Oil Company, conten d s that the document is couched in the vaguest kind of lang age - so vague that you c a n attach all sorts of meanings to it. For example, the agreement on oil provides for what it calls - "Production equitably distributed among the various producing countries." But what does •equitable" mean? It dwells on what it calls - "Fair prices." But wh ~ t is a fair price? J. Howard Pew argues that the whole thing is so ambiguous that it is, in his words, "As innocuous or as vicious as its administrators desire to make it." He thinks the whole thing could be administered in such fashion that oil el l s in America might be shut down for the benefit of oil wells in some remote part of the world. He says it might lead to a worldwide cartel OIL - 2 -- sy s t e m, .ic1 h e ca l s - "A de vic e to assure the security a nd s urvival of decadent and inefficjent industri es a n d economies." An d he adds: "The cartel system is a p rim a ry reason for th e backwardness of Europ e an i n d ustry com p ared with our own. The cartel system,• h g o e s on, "results in the freezing of industria l p r o gress to the detriment of workers, consumer s and t h ose with savin s to invest.• T da y t h N w York St te Board granted a a ro le - to Jim o y Hin The on e -time power in Hall i s to be released from prison. His conviction four years ago was a politica sensation. Tho se were the days h en Thomas E. Dewey, now the republican p residential candidate, was the racket-busting District Attorne of Manhattan. He charged Jimmy Bines ith havin g been involved in the numbers racket run by that ace racketeer, Dutch Schultz. Hin s was then one of the dominant leaders of Tammany, but Dewey convicted him. Sent to Sing Sing, Hines never conceded his guilt. He was employed in the prison greenhouse, tending the flowers. Meanwhile, he applied for a parole, ~ that now bas been gra. ~ n ~ t ~ e ~ d ~ · :.------- --- ·