T e f 1 Japs . e ne k ate u on o r ine • s, su· • cide e c n f ·ct bee me even m ore de, ly . I i be omi • the f i - • htin& n l e - j~'" otl I o- The J · ne re t l gly entr nched in pill boxes n " caves taatx••••••i• ith co nic tin& trenche. Tb r r ss of the inf~ntry •sz ■•• grows lo r ever d-y. In f act , the fighting is so intense th t i t is ~a~oMt~~~i~.1~1~,~r~~~»~,,~,~,~~~,~ff~ for ny unit to advanc -Lr too far f:e;p Is•• it &&ii' be c ut off. C nsp · uently, it 0 ~ may become necess ry f r ~ inf ntry column to slow s o . as to s tr a i g ht en its l~i~n~e~•:...--__..__..---....-...,....i--.....----------------~ - ,D IFIC .--~------ ........ ---- Th e o f the N · o n c · o . re '-n ze. Fr m o n •· - noll alone th e are s m n ifteen entr n e to un er _ round tun ls, nd so e of them are half a ile lon. In such defenses, the enemy looks don u on the V rea~ part of the American line. .& 0 r are u y. ne 1 0 e o o u e nin u on ewes x ■ zt coat of the · 1 n i r u er U. S. contro ~ n r i l er n e uns oft e fleet cooper e to of en u t e Ja ane eon ou . ern O in a. T . e J a p ne o ay m . e t a our ilane .., unl pl us one c u i .. r n r ....... er- rea nou ee e~ o ye r . . Te in which t ey ~m it ~ it reveale t~e a t t J a • a · ~ saillirs an irmen re no 1 e o suici e ait the a ainst/U. S. Navy. An the sips de troye mff over the ~eekend, t e Y mato, the cruiser ~n three Q destr.oyers wee par of a special at ck corps assigne to damage t e Americ n flees at any co~+. Any cost in th· s case me nt he lo . of five of tr e ika o's warships. s ___ .., I ___ II _ . Ou , a d~ i l i p in .. e 1 e J n v ssels - e r un k ly m 1 e , • T of t m r r , e were i on 0 oin out off t . e C . inA Co t. e nin of a is -- that ener 1 e r e nney, Co . man er o T ird A i r F or c e i s e s t, a 1 i r i n t:> a re a 1 1 o c !: o 1' Japan. e U n i e d t t e n r e n a are friendly onc e mo r . Th · t i s, d i l om c.i. t ic fri e n d . Se e r t a ry S te t in iu an n o u n e d h ' our o v er n m ent h as res u med ~~ di p lo ma ic e-e ■ muRia tion& i t he r i me of Presi ent Fa r rell in conjunction ith th e o t h e r nineteen republic of the e st e r n Hemis p here ~o d y the diple ■ a\i@ officer in cha r e s called at the Argent i ne time in more thaa a , ye a r. This of course is the direct result of Argentina's ei r11l declaration of ar u p on the Axia countries an d her ac ce t a n c e o f the a · L i ons of the Mexico City Conf e rence. q ~ ~~lt,~e...s C G. l f ,, ... A Democr a ic Congre s s ma n t o a y o p ened a campaign for k eepi ng t h e isl a n ds in t he P a ifi c w hich A mericans ~"'le,~~ have fo ught n died to i•• from the Ja p s. Represent a tiv Mahon of Texas po i n t ed out that in t his he h a s the suppor of A dm ir 1 E rne t J. King, Commander-in-Chief of the United States F l eet. S a y ~ Ma . h o n: "le ou g ht not · to have to buy these bases* with Americ a n mon e y a nd blood than once." Also, he thinks that Uncle Sam should r~lin a n d if the United Nations can for nd control. In en t , he ' in s is t ed . that the ad mi . n is tr a ti o should make no commitment s for relinquishing the control of the isl a nds without the consent of Congress. until morning to surrender. In t h is ty p e of war fa r e, there 1 - 8 no ~ Hg h WE TFRN FFONT ------- ----- G . ,c: \ I r .:, • ) z; On e s ory from the Front t o ni ht describes the g i o n bet \ _ n Rhin and H no _ v er as on vast guerrilla battl e field of a e c uliarly e ly ty p e. be oo d are ohockfull of Ge r ns. Some of them want to - - - surr n e r , othe - A me r i c an t ro o p s w n to kill. Conse . uen t ly, the - ~ rol l in g ea s w rd do not know~ is which They ass a g rou p of na t ives n they don't krlow wheth~r hey are oing to thro~ up their hands and screa• wiamerad" or put up a fight. Fourteen ye a r old boy.a JUap out of ditches to commit suicide, trying to attack our tanks. In Hannover, the Nazi officials have even inducted the draft board into serviee. On the other hand, G~rman soldiers even go to the jails an d w hen the g uards aren't 4'"' rf!_ l o o k i n g , ~ ~ into the p risoners~ ,so they won't have to wait until morning to surrender. In t h is ty p e of war fa re th ' ere lfEC"TERN FRONT - -------------- thin g a a non-comb nt. A ener·l or a c l erk is just as li' e y to b e a t c _ ed a a fully armored fighting man. GM. ) 1 , ~ !he'5 never kno i hen to expect a bullet from a sniper, even miles behind the front lines. In other words, thougti the Germ a ns are disorganized, they have by no means quit, and that is a lesson f ■ z that everybody here at ~home .M IV'might take to heart. Tonight lwfh the First and Third Armies of the United States are together east of the Weser River, on a hundred mile front. A dozen armored columns are fann DI out through Germany toward Magdeburg on the Elbe, eigh ee1 miles away, and Leipzia in Saxony, sixty miles away. The Germans have set fire to both Bremen and Hennover. In fact, they are putting the torch to everything on the entire north Westphalian Plain, everything they have time to set fire to. Brunswick and " . Lubeck, another old port f o the former H ans atic L eague • a r e a l s o r ep ort e d in f l - me s , w hich i s cu r io us bee use n e ·t he r o f t h e m h s been bom b e d by Allied pl an es for wee t. s. In sh o rt, it lo o ks as t ho ugh th e Germ a n army in / the north is app l y ing the c orched earth policy. The only to , ns and c ities th a t escape ar ~ those i• ta, pa9h she••••• illiea ••• et!sl g s ••i,llp,that the Germans haven't time to destroy. !he British Second Army under General Sir Miles Dempsey, has begun the sie g e ~f M Bremen with a bi& concentration of guns and tanks. ~t is · going to have the support of- the full weight of Marshal Montgomery's artillery. As we know he, like the Russi a ns, is a fira believer in efficient a nd heavy artillery preparationl for any attack. On the northern end of the front, the Canadia n First Arm y is wiping out German pocket s in Holland. It h E m a e c o nn ections w it h airborne t roops, although F.STE F N FRONT - l ______ _. ______ ___ the Ger ma ns cl im to h a ve i p e d out the pa r · c hute infantry th a w re a d ed. The Ninth Army h " fought its w a y into Essen, one of the foremost of the gr eat s t eel an d munition cities o f the Ruhr. There are the bio1ns\ factories of the great Krupp Works, and the Ninth has occupied those factories. Supreme headquarters in Paris te lls us there have been fifty thousand Germ a n - ca su lties a day for the past ten d a ys, makin g half a million. The Nazis themselves, in their broadcasts, admit that they have been trying to stop our Allied armor ith units no better than _ _ impromptu fire brigades. So u th of W estphalia, the First Army broke loose, forced the p as sa e 0 f the Leine River nprtheast of Kassel, ' IA nd 'l:D now stormin the Werra River due east of Kassel. Berlin s a ys they are dropping paratrooper. be h ind the Germ a n lines. Patton!s en ae o n the m arc h a ain after a lull of for days , resumabl y to let s upply lines catch u p ith them. The First an Third bet een them have driv a ~edge into what is c 1 ed the Thuringian Gap, in the Bartz Mount i ns, on e of the historic gatew a ys to Leipzig and A -_ l . al four A., ' ie • q_ - ie" . re ,tgp ' Jb • pushing towar t , e Elbe iver, ap ro . C in the fortress cities that . uar ,. erlin o , n t , e West. To pave the w y for t . : em the Allie Bi - h Comman · sent out five tbous , an . planes, · eavy bombers, me ium bombP-rr:! ahd fi hters which tore up communication lines and distupt~d the Germans behin their fron. Int e South, the Frenc are less . . - - than nine milee _ way fro Stuttgart. De i f t !hir Ar h e founa ~till an c- s o f tre ur ich the azis h a stolen an hi den. T - is is in a di i o n t o t e hundred million doll . r of old bullion an the paintings and other tre sure hey fo n Sa urda . salt mine. Todayt 1n a a detail of he Third r nsacked an ncient cas · le not fa · r from Giesen. It consisted largely of Jewish manuscripts ------ of great historic and scholarly importance, actually priceless. There ere lso paintings an other orks · of art. It is believed the manu~cripts and books were stolen fro• the Oppenheim Museum at Frankfurt-am-Main, the Je ish Bistorial Museum at Af sterdam, and museums in Paris. They were probably stolen for the benefit of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg , the n otorious collaborator of itler, ,ho is believed to have done a ood deal of the writing of "Mein Y mpf. 1 At any rate . he was ~ r ·bl f H"tler's ant1·-semitic r vings. " 1 · e po n s 1 . e or · IntheSt e ~ q u ~ • epa t nt)tettinius announces t~~ that th ld 11 the ol ~ n other treasures it h oun unt·1 t e A lied nations can make · plans to handle the loot. They are pled ed to return it to the ri&htful oner, but finding the rightful owners is going to be a terrific job. One bi o f from us i oni&ht i a atory for · ·ch e've been aitin a long time, the f 11 of Koeni sberg. ,'IJ. F c a p i t a l of East Prussi·, whv.t is left of it, is now in the hands of the Third bite Russi ArmJone m st s y the enemy fought hard. The siege lasted seventy days, ten h le eek~, although the garri on from the first w s hopeles ly outnumbered. So . much for the Baltic front, but down south the fall of Vienna is more and more imminent. Tolbukbin ~ - sent in a fz■■ fresh column of shock troops from the north. And those Red soldiers are only three thousand yards a ay from* another division that is charging in from the south. In fact, the Reds are a vancing so quickly that it loo s as though the attractive old capital on the Danube ay esc e bein a badly dama ei as some other cities. For i nee, one column, having captured the USSIA - ..._ ____ _ wests tion in uth es rn V·enn ' v c d a mile and a uarter . ince la night, en is no th museum on t e in . T ill m _ n a lot to anybody ho ha ever been to Vienna. The Rin corre ponds to Chica o's ~oop, It is a circular boulevard, enclosing the entire heart of the city. Inside it are r ll he best hotels, the best restau · ants, theatres, in short, ost of what a wan s to see. AD R S I A ----------- at the C J Russians tonigh reAin possession of two t ir s of the ol d city of the Austrian Emperors. Since no n, the Third Army of the Ukraine pushe11 ahead 'fl - two miles, took the Parliament Buil ing, the Main Police Station, tre ~ e Imperial Opera, the ~ k Imperial eentral Post Offic,~and t~e Central Eurppean i..~ I A ~ 6( ~ ~J~ ~ ,( Bank 1A What the Germans are ~anging on to now is just the northern part of Vienna and t e eas ern section ., g • . . between the c&nal and t e River Danube. It looks a s tho u g h a new ba tle m i g ht be ab~ut to break in Italy. Things have been quiet there for. months. · But today ther e was a sudden erupt ion of air raids on the German d ivisions alon e the Sineo River. That is in the eastern p art of the plains of the Po Valley The ~llied high comm a nd threw all the ircraft it bad . at the lastx,■ aitt•• Nazis. TE,\ E --- ---- Now I brin~ you a tor of rea moment, t . e late t ab ou S irley Te mple's e llJl bem ent ring. It is a iamon t w o an in platinum, emerald cut. Tre young I- h alf carats, set movie star has promised Mother she wil i no marry her fianc.(. John George Agar for two year s -- maybe three. ~~: ... It is U,rj)f{nifto learn that S~irlev ~ ore the two and a h alf carat emerald-cut iamond engagement ring to the exclusive fas~ionable Wertlake School for girls. She tol reporters coyly tha t it was d ifficult to pay attention to her stu d ies sue~ as cutting up frogs in the laboratory •it~ that ring on her finger. a"\ W("l,f" wee.~ t( j/t~ AW-~• l.1.!.:.!. Toni g h e n o hy the N a tional A s s oci a tion of ~~ ~ Manuf a ctur e r ~ d id n o g r ee tl\the a r ement betw en the Unions a nd the United States Chamber of Co mm erce wi~h ,_Jlettft, the so-c~lled Labor-Man e gement Charter for post-war industrial eace. It s e ems that all along, the ft.A.K. and the Chamber of Commerce have had a joint committee at work preparing drafts of legislation to aake strikes ille g al. Thia was made public today by a director of the National Association of Manufacturers. He thought it very curious that Eric Johnston, President of the Chamber, bad made the charter public when he did1 knowing ~ 11 the w hile that the Chamber and the R.A.M. were~ollaborating on such a measure as that. Whether such a law would have a chance of passing is another matter, but if it did p ass, it w ould outl ay, • all strikes by un io n s c lled fc :.- the purpose of • coercin& government a . encies to act on cases before them. It wou d also forbid labor unions from using their power of strike to prevent the adoption of modern production techniques. Some unions have opposed the installation of new machinery. It would discourage strikes in viola t ion of contract, and guarantee the freedom of all men · to refrain fro ■ Joining the Onion without danger to himself or his family. Bews from Tokyo tonight is quft• significant. The Mtati ■ Mikado's new Prime Minister announces that hi1 foreign Minister who has charge of affairs in Greater East Asia, is Shigenori Togo. That might not mean anythin& ~ more than any other long Japanese name. But tnis Toao happens to be the diplomat who had charge of the negotiations with the Sowiets during the border conflict between the Russians and the Japanese in Nineteen Thirty-Eight. T&ni g h it l oo s a th o u gh he s oft co a l squabble mi ht b sett l e d i ·t h out the go ve r n ent h a ving to step in. The Uni o n le d ers en the m i n e ow ners have come to terms on every issue but one. T h e spokesm a n refused to - s ay w h t that one • is , but he ind i c a t e d that there w a a . - - distinct hope that even that might be ironed out. It looks as though there w s an end to the wildcat stl'ike _ _ ovement in the central and we s tern coal fields. Today there were sixty-two mines shut down, some eighteen thousand men out. That is a distinct improvement from Saturday, when there were ninety mines not producing and thirty-four thous a nd men idle. AD COAL --------- Late toni g t, t . e r Li:i o r oar certifie t . e strikes in many of those :n e s - to the Economic Stabilizati n Dir ~ c t or, i l iam H.Davis. Tat leaves it u t o D avis w e her t h e Government shall seize those mines or not. ~ I." T e s sh rp criticism oday of the Pre ident's idea for es 1 · sh· ng a is 0 ri Velley Authority , just l i . e the Tennessee Valle Authority. hat is needed , says the critic , is ■a ■ x M x l x l xJ not one .V.A., but two , -- ---- one for lhe upper r·ver , where irrigation interests ---- are most important, and the other for the lower river , - where flood control and navig n re par tnount. The critic is none other than Dr. Arthur E . l or& a Q once Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority , w hom President hoosevelt fired in Nineteen Thirty - Eight , after one of the stormiest episodes of his ai■ i •i•*z•ll•• administrations. '1heth r onP o f the great ,..; ~ yo rP Arthur Morgan or not, American engineers. Be points he is out t~at the isso r i Ri er dr~ins an area of ~early six hundr d th o usand aquare miles. That is fifteen times as much as the area dr ined by the ·Tenne see. In s ~r u ent, r. • org n t&kes a cra c k at the movi c ur c lled "The River", bich bas been distributed all over th country. Be say it is powerful, but dishonest and misle ing, an it ill be a generation before the f lse impression given by th t picture is overcome. CRIMINAL~ - o e criticism of the United R · tions ar Crimes Commission in London. The Czechoslovak delegate has now come out with the accusation that in the long run the Commission will do nothing to punish Nazis guilty of cruelties before or during the wa~ -- 1n a scathing expos of the polic~ of secrecy adopted by the Commission, he says: •They re against publicity in •atters concerning 1 war criminals, because they have dark plans favorable to the criminals.• laxi•*i Be intimated th t the Commission is composed ot diplom ts and politicians who suffered nothing, or so-called experts dn interlltional law who do nothing bat invent obstacles in the way of effective punishment for war criminals. By way of ia illustration, he pointed out that they sneer at the suggestion that meabership in the Gestapo or the S.S. should be considered prima facie evidence of membership in . a criminal gang, punishable in itself. The members of the Co m mission o ay there $re also d ecent people among - the S.S. and the Gestapo. That last one is quite a strain on the credulitytf most people.