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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~;
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Japanese
pes-:'i.m~t.
could only be deepened by
today's news, with word of the heaviest raid
of
the war
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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:
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e
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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
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w-itli aona\e • ati»a.eka.....
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er
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t.ae
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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.
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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 •.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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d:
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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.
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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
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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.
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