On . . i I h n •· e tio . . .. n. ; th o mi l on t oi nt P n oo a u Id of two mm . thou ~ v o t illl: av 'Ii +w Ro b i o n C ballenge T h u E. Dewey. An t n tht tot s be e R o vel.t, six b.mdred n si y-a ven ~~~ t ho · nd; Dewey ive mndrod and thirty-fit' t n d. ~ inolud . . baaVJ votes from the Solid outh, wher the Demooratil majories were overw he lming. In ivi,ion the st t.ef, tbe Pre ent l ed in e1 hteen out or thirt,y-t •• De•i he 1n r teen. Gene>. pea 11 , , the vo~e ollow p rovio pro ostioati n s - the o.J.id South 1.> till .1 01id. Dewey lei ing in the fw:,a st tea in the lliddlewe · t arvl lso in New Eng - nd. The ere t i ndustrial state .. more or lees in doubt., these destined to decide tbe . Lection. still lriter tb.l total fi e :, Hed up for the nati n - xa with the President showing the a ~ . t o uishiu percent e or fifty-nine per cent, the C!:alle n er f o rty pe : · c nt. This, re · nut of the quick flood or r turns from the s outh. At the SbJlle ti e on tbe ni ht f o ye o, the Pre~:a nt h:.i. m re tlhn fifty-four r cent · . hil nde l ff i ie h.. • thi , c.. r • than tt:f fou.rty-five per o nt. lgt'JHG This is a tr a d i tional o casio n for u peculiar .dn d of bewilde ,a o nt, t t r a n• sma n • tc hing the nationa e l ect i on returns 0011e in on the wire. gar~ a catt rln ret l rn B fr o m t hi s state th e next one, a then ...ar g er nwnbere appea r ing - numb er . that grow J.u rge a tbe minute■ p&IS. Tbe new■ wire pounds. ou t an intricate puszle of fi gur es, '<ll hicb tbe new aan tri•• to r 1 • out - a wq realising that &llJ tent a tive c u oluaion be ma:r arri•• at .Ja:T be turned upside down in the next big batch of figures. rar exam - •, here is set o f election returns that I have been 8C&Dni~ on the wires CO Hro"l'ICUT1 Dewey 31,.:xx>; Roo ~ eve!t 28,000. T!Ntt~S!lz Roo .. welt 37,000; Dewey 20 1 000. • ~ ~ I Roo sev elt 161,000; Deny 12.1,000. I C HIGAlh Dn97 2791)J ; Roo s evelt l5QO. PEN ' :,Y ., V !At Roo , :r,e l t 290,000; Dewer 242,000. 11A • . l • S l!'l'TSz Dewey 8,000; Roosevelt s,ooo. ':\Dd 110 on in a patoh quilt of election returna. co~GRESS ~ Second in illlport ce to tlw p r i denoy i s the fl of Congress - ~ mighty 1.aport.ant too. The general trend or ti. ea·~ vote ould seelll to ind.io te t t the Democratic candid te s for Congreae are running behind Pre i dent Roosevelt. And this might seem to jibe with prediotiona tat, while the Deaoarata were reeleati.ni tbl Preeident tor a fourth tena, tbl Repiblloana aigbt be winnin control of C ~ H - tbl lower Bouse at leut. And t - , aig.bt be inorea in& their strength in the Senate. The ner. • s frOlll the hilip p i . t a n turn to rug ht, 1th a bull tin announoin , th • bi t: e t 'txitt ... e in th i nv ,. ion ttu · f _., r - a major ela h on the i d f Leyte. The r iou • appearances were that the Japs on L e we r pr tty "ell w u ) , but General 11a01rtb.lr now ann o unces th. ~ t t e r.rq ucoeedecl in lo.naing reinforce m ents, and heavy fi~bt.ing is g o i n A oArthur dis toh t Us of a bitte r battle l'.Jtween the Ame ,·_ otL-n in ion farces and e ents of seven Ja neee divL·ions. And here• the J.&test.1 A Toqo di• tob telling of the sm. . e-up ot t.m Japaneae oom.nand in the Philippi es. A ... h . · e-up of COllllllllnd usual.q aeana tint tbe pe.rt.;1 do the sha . dn u i a hiving troub •• Wbiob 1• oertainJ...y true of tbe a, J.ap• in the Philippines. And now they replace tblir OOllllll&.nder. T new en•~ bosb has a nwne of sinister me i.nina tor AN ioElJ18 - Yamashita. He cOIIIIUlnded the Japanese Arrtl;f in the '1 . >' O'Hntbel.aing of the out-numbe ed AJAe .1 c ns t Be.tan and Corri g t41or. ow he i ven tho d r e ction of the PbiJ.ip in w w- again, wber thi.n s are mi hty- rliff rent than they were ~t the time when Yamishi.ta bro ht in 111k luge Japanets armies- , inot out-nwn ed un une q uipJ d Ame o ns. TOKYO ----- Once a a in th J ap re ort superfortre ses over Tokyo , a n d o nc a g a in t he re is no c on f i r ma t ion from our side. The Jap accounts are vague, an give no indication of bombs dropped -- owe really don't know • what it's all about, whether the B-29s did dr~p bombs or whether they were conducting some large-scale long- range aerial reconnaissance. This is the third ti ■ e in a week that Tokyo tells of superforts over the Tokyo area• & R ~ ~ fr.o / a, l' f ,, ,, ht li V e / n In the G r m an H hineland there is -- or was a tiny vill g e c a lled Vos s en ck. An d t i s pl a c e , ~ \4\. e« ta the case of ao many other little towns in E urope, is dominated by a ~ hurcb, with the conventional spire. Or, at least, it was. For the church is now a ruin. Such is tonight's descripti o n of the focua of battle on the Western Front. The villa e of VosEenack is a crossroads, and thereby dominates communications with 0 another small place called Iommerscheidt, a mile and a half ••J away. This latter pla c e is held firmly by American force s , who have made it a formidable stronghold ~ -- ■•• MtH*:J.Z - " farthest point of penetration d ~he Amerwi!M into Germany, the apex of the front that they have thrust into the Geraan Rhineland. The bitterest kind of battle has been raging for Vossenack, with t he German s trying to take the crossroads and cut the communications ith the other village -- that apex p oint. The news toni g ht indicate s the situation i s about half and h alf, the Americans holding one-half of the town, the Germans the other half - 'E TERN F R OHT - 2 ----------- and the bitterest point. of conflict is at the church. Both Americans and Germana were in the ruined building, fighting there. An d United Press correspondent John Frankish, puts it in the following grim terms: •Both the Yanks ant the German■ are inside . the church, and they aren't getting married,• he flashes. The conflict for Vossenack bas been raging for bitter hours. The Americans pushed in, and a ■■■i seemed about to take the place. The enemy retorted with a counter-att ~ ot but s~oved them back. The G.I.•s rallied in the seesaw fight to regain sk■ ii their former positions. Then today another violent Nazi counter- attack rol~ed forward, spearheaded by heavy tank•~ Once again the Americans retired a bit, and that left the situation half and half, which obtains tonight with both Americans and Germana in the church that dominates, or used to dominate the village -- or what used to be the villa g e. On t.he eoa t of Hollaad, where t"htr B~it-i;9'h a ~ EUROPEAN 'AR ---------- 'e have a report tonight that the Allied com~and on the t estern Front has abandoned all hope for a swift knockout of Germany. This word comes from Washington, with the explanation t.he Righ-Co ■Hkll 1'I la I a "e c 'be tri:-e 11 --t. lurl:-·-~-w~a1t1~~•ee--eb-rr"ii:"'lg~ht4t,r--tsn&&Ml'lel!!----wlN!),,e ae.1&k .. e--aaM18MI .... I-to i:11 -pe te-t etl-- ,,,.., ~ ha,(' the Ge rm a1111 are makini stubborn 0 and effective resistaance all the Siegfried Line and wherever Allied forces .&::amsMNwabead_&a-=:t , • ., /\ 7- Tb e enemy reaction is strong and violent. It looked caught for a while as if the Naii forces 11igbt b~••~ off • b a l ~ and outflanked for a quick thrust into Ger■ an7, but l set-back in the paratro•op-er battle at Arnhem changed the 11ilitary prospects -- that, together with !9ormous th~Allied problem of supplies. So now the Big h Com1and has reconciled itself to a bitter war of attrition for months -- before the Siegfried Line can be smashed open er outflanked. i• On the eventh Army front in France, there's a Staff Sergeant who has been making something of a record for capturing prisoners. He has been taking them t o a day as regular as clock-work. In eight days he haa brought in sixteen prisoners of war, which might seem to indicate 6 oae extraordinary beroisa, but it was r e ally a matter of luck. Sergeant Henry Bogan of lest Monroe, Louisiana, occupies an outpost position, and straight across, sml not far away 1 is a German pillbox. You might think the pillbox to be a thing of menace and peril for the ergeant, but it 1 ts somethin g quite different. Each morning, for the past eight days, two German soldiers emerged from the strong point, strolled over and surrendered to the Sergeant. That pillbox, by a freak of accident, hap ens to be so situated that . t'ts one place from which Geraan soldiers can come out and surrender without being observed by their officer s . The wa7 the Heinies work it is t h i r - ~ pill box is supposed to be held by two men. ~ their of f icer h~Ye been killed. -tt:R. th a tA two at the stron g p oint So d uring the night two more are s ent to bold the fort. These two surrender and the same thing is repeated -- making American Sergeant Henry Bogan quite a c hampion at capturing prisoners. ,.,, Dli' I""' -u l\ . u l ~. - - - - - Years ago George Carpentier, the orchid man of F a n e • wa a shifty boxer, f ast ani ingenious. To ay a rpe tier i s fifty, and once again is required to do aoae fancy footwork -- thou g h not in the boxing ring. In Paris he's the mana 6 er of a big night club where be was visited recently by his old antagonist, Jack Dempsey, the manassa mauler, who smashed down the orchid aan in that battle of the century years ago. Th~ trouble for Carpentier is that be is accused of having been a collaborationist, hobnobbing with the And this Nazis during their t i e of tyranny iu Paris. Carpentier is busy denying~he one bad thing for him is a photogfaph, a picture showing hi~ in the boxing ring during the German oc c upation. With him in the ~i•k ring i · .iax Sch:neling, l he Ger'Dan prize fighter and former heavywei g ht cha~pion. The t o are seen exchangin a friendly e~brace. QARPENTlill_-_1 To ay' s ne s give t hf J C a rpenti e r explanation. He says that he wa s about to give an exhibition bout on his fiftieth birthday, when some uninvited Geraans got in and brought Sch i neling, also uninvited. Schmeling climbed into the ring, and embr aced Carpentier -- and at that aoment a couple of Nazi photogfaphers snapped 1/~l the picture. "What oo uld I do?" the one-time orchid w-:d. ~ _......,_,.LJ"&~·· aan asks" And he adds, "I could nat give Schemling a straight left. I would have been sho~" ~--f~ • During the robot bomb attacks against London, the que s ti o n over he e was -- could the Nazis hit us - with robots? Today we have an official answer made j•intly by the Army and the Navy. And the summarizing words are -- •entirely possible.• 7aow? In what fashion? "Such raids Here's the Army and Navy answer: )i■a ■ta,A might be launched against the United States by submarines lying offshore or by one-way sacrifice flights of long-range bombers cont~olled across the Atlantic by submarines. It is also possibl9: the statement goes on, • that attacks might be launched from tenders carrying catapult planes.• The statement tells us that such attacks could have not_At ■ X ■~ any military effect, but the Geraans might try them -- as a spite job. The Army and Navy explain that the only reason for this declaration today is the fact ta that newspapers have raised the question of the possibility of robots hitting this country. STALIN __ _....._..,_ Th.t"statement by Stalin was one of those t ino that makes people scan the meaning of a few words. The Soviet ar leader, in his address on his year's anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, classif~apan with Nazi Germany as an ;A::,ssor ,-~ .. * ~ ,.,..~, ~ ... nation. ~ as the first time du rin tbe war that Stalin bas said anythin~ antagonistic toward Japan, with which nation Soviet Ruasia has been maintaining the strictest kind of neutrality. Bence the surmise is inevitable -- that by now calling Japan an aggressor, Stalin is turning aaainst the Far Eastern enemy of the - ,,.... other United Nations. 1f' lt ha■ llHn expl.ataild.::::q' I aga th/nu~fun neu~rii'"it / ; ' n hased d'n tl}.e fact /Sn had 1-oo /a take on ,, , ._.._.~..-""' Japan / / / £ the v. rge of was ~ pointed out em~hatically ,, oy / ~ali t, e,nd h>9 been accost, med , / Ea~. B / utter def e's . / o point ut ~ lfi , STALIN -2 --- ----- / / / / hw'rs h facts of the Soviet war B > uat ion ,.. __ alYof which 118.kes his opti.nistic iY I I his eclar tion tbat I fP ~ Be ce the tA>ne EuroBA / / I / - 1 ss to / orry about Today Yosco• got a tall stack of congratul a tions -- the heads of nations felicitating the Soviet government on the twenty-sixty anniversary of the revolution that put the Sovidts into power and one message was from Winston Churchill. That was especially noticed -- becau e this is the first time that Churchill had sent congratulati J ns on an anniversary of the STALIN - .l ------ Bolshevik revolution. On two previous anniversaries, with Gre a t Britain and Russia partners in the war, Churchill was the only one of the 0nited Nations leaders who did not send felicitations. But today he did, and hia messa e was given special attem.on in Mo6cow.Jf;t~•est kind of g reetings to the Soviets, with the statement, •The Anglo-Soviat alliance will be a source of ■ any blessings to both countries, the United latlons and the whole world.• 0 In the lto:A:01t Rowe of Commons today Prime ~inister Winston Churchill, speaking in somber tones, announced the assassination of Lord 1oyne -- British was committed in Egypt, at Cai foul assassins,• said inston Minister was a cloae friend o Commissioner, and was d the dead of terroriaa. "The crime the hands of The Prime Resident news of In Parlia~ent today Churchill stated that he had no information about the identity of the assassins -- two young killers who we~e captured. were not Egyptians and to this Churchill referred, adding: •very se rching inquiries will be made of . the One ent made by General Sir Bernard ~aget, British Commander-in-Chief in th~tddle East is that the killers are -- "Jewish assassins." This w o u 1 d make t he m P a 1 e s t in e terror is t s , me mb e r s group headed by the Extremist leader, u tern. LO R D MOYNE - 2 ~---- ----- On the other hand, in London today, Lord • StrobolgJ, the Ltb or Peer, is quoted as expressing a belief that Lord Moyne was murdered by Nazi agents. Churchill characterizes the Resident Coamisaioner as a well-informed friend of the J,wish people, who bad devoted himself to the solution of the Zionist question -- the problem of Palestine as a Jewish homeland. And Jn London t oda7 the new Zioniat organiza ' denounced the ■urder in bitter terms. One of leaders declared: •The new Zionist organizatl~n la- J r s l ~ Jo all in its power to bring Jewish 7outha A back to the realization that only by employment of political instruments, discussi~n, negotiation and public enlightenment, can the legitimatd Jewish claim of Jewish statehood be attained•. And the new Zioniat organization calls for a rigoraus inquiry into crimes of terrorism. Meanwhile in Cairo the tao assassins refus~ to talk. Today they stated: "We will not talk until we are in court.• They won't admit who they are, and no papers to identify the ■ were found in their clothing. Investigation by the police indicates that they had been in Cairo for ab out ten days, and a checkup on them shows that they hired bicycles, on which they followed Lord Yoyne and ••*••i• watched his movements. . -a,.J.~ Three times they hired bicycles, and trailed hia,.4tried .. to escape on these after the crime. _,. H er e' s an electi o n oddity -- about a man in ~ Chicago who, r a s ked his name at a polling booth, replied -- Incognito. The offici a l• were astonished they bad never heard of anybody wantin g to vote without - giving a name, incognito. Why? Bow come? After ~ some bewilder~ questi o ning the puzzle was cleared up -- that i as his name -- Incognito. - ~ct"£ EID -- Here are ome late figures, an example of the kind we will be . getting froa R.B.C. all evening 1P -- as the great drama of the election unfolds!- The city of Borman, Oklahoma, incoaplete returns -- Roosevelt two hundred -- Dewey one hun d red and eighty three. In South Carolina, the city of Coluabia, ~ \heN'"'4t"N a write-in-voteAfor Senator Byrd, not large but curious at least. Roosevelt fifty-eight - Dewey, none; Senator Byrd - three. That of course~ A::11::::llltl!r,&CJ,t_,s~R~id South. A ELECT I N - --- The election returns at th1s hour can, of ~~e nothing more than the merest sporadic ~ Only a few precincts here and there have flashed ~ ~ e -i iniest trickle of votes has been reported. For example, it is expected that the total vote this electi o n day will run up to fifty million, while the latest figures .....__,...__.. ---- ---- we have,give a total of less than ten thousand. ~ late r:~u~n,~:::la-~:o■ .,,.., ... _ •t■ i widely separated area~-- President Roosevelt foul\-thou and,-five-hundred-and-ninety-three; Governor Dewey three-thousand, five-hundred-and- fift7-four. Those votes were cast in states of the solid south, where the Democratic party is overwbe~ ■ ing 1 ~ .... IJ ~ ' 1 f and some &f-Ul-em-<oM from the Middle West,Aothers from New England~It is noted that President !loosevelt is going str..,ng in Oklahoma, while Governor lJewey has beED well ahead in the e a rly returns from the ~ew England states of Ne w Ha mp shire and Vermont. One fee1ture in the e a Jt, ~ -'an aa s , w hi ch , w it h t, he~ rick 1 e returns has been ~AA.<9.J of votesl\this afternoon gave Roo 3 evelt two thousan~, six hundred nd thirty- four; Dewey two-thousand,-three-hundreci-s;L-fifty-one. ~ ,=;I;>.R, 4'I'\. ~.:t.-- - a~. The voter-were in part from the industrial area of IansasCity, where the Democrats would naturally run stronger than saa in the raral sections of the state. ,w'Altogetber, on the basis of the exceedingly fragmentary returns. the President seeas to have a bit the beit&, of it -- but laaa let's look at the news, the tidings from the war frontf, and then turn to some late figures i• at the end of this program. PHILIP I E ~ -------- --- In the Philip ines the final stages ttsf- the battle ,I,, Leyte are being fought, with the American ;fensive tu r nin 6 into a mopping up operation. The last core of enemy resistance is being assailed, and the last po ■ ible e cape route for the Japanese farce is being cut am narrowed. This ii:; a corridor twent7- five m i l ~ : ~ h e port of Ormoc, the Jap••- base on the we · t coast of Leyte. The pas s age is ~ narrow and b under constam..t<-fi~e.~E Aae!'-iaaa lena ~~• ~ Apparently it will soon be closed, and Or1100 •• itself be placed under assault. At last reports tanks of the Twenty-fourth division were within fifteen miles of Ormoc Barbor. ifcccµ-ttfn a d (A\,, / / / ' / land-ing a e r 1nfo_,rce11 oc. / / ,r / , r / ici' get some asho-Te a few d,-ays ,.. ,ago, / , /" , / / The Jflps cj,on' ~veJr s " to / ni-on from tr1ie b 1..-,fro .. n ~s /t. h~t ,, ~ / / / / er,s ha7e g·~en up hope gf'do a ab'6ut I / ,r / / / ; , / / / / / / . and ar, 1 e, t . 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