GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY; If you hear any coughing, or even a chuckle during this news broadcast tonight, here is the reason. The studio I am rb in ia nacked with officers and men of the Army. _ Even the standing room is ta^en. borne of Uncle Sa^’s officers and men who are connected with the anti aircraft defense of our eastern sea coast, are pitt-4-n^ me. They have just come in i rom X ^ doing some field work on QuaKer Hil.l, high up in southeastern Dutchess County. General Sanderford Jarman, in commanci oi all our anti-air craft acd defenseTfrom Canada to the Caribbean is sitting beside me. If anything crops un in the news, that concerns General barman*s department, I as may may be able t fire a question at him. throw a .ittle li^-*u. Here is one General on which you Hunt. It Vs that terrific battle going on over- in Bubbis, on the Volga. RUSSIA Thr Gernipn; admit they are making slow progress at ~i£jt ^t1 i.^i! • -L-icy give fcxcuss t-ns.t the city is ^colossslly i ortii iedn. Every house a stronghold^ anflk railway and A power stations barricaded with barb wire HHtxnxHi entanglement Every bit of street must be mopoed Up, say the Germans. And they add that heavy rains and deep mud are helping to slow the attack. On the Russian side, Moscow hEixiHgAfcH tells of reinforcements. Siberian reinforcements*-find those are words to hearten the Russians. Last winter the Nazis wrere checked in front of Moscow by the arrival of it troops from distant Siberia. And now otalingrad is getting the same kind of help - though whether in time or not we cannot say.pHosci pictures the Germans as being within the city, the battle going on through the streets One Russian account tells of the recapture of a village just outside Stalingrad - a village on the Volga, fnis sh is the first Soviet admission that the Germans have driven to the great river in the Stalingrad area - although Berlin clair.ed this some days ago. RUSSIA - 2 Gernan war planes are bombing Slalin^rad incessantly witn torrents oi high explosive. The dive bombing is so intense -- it must mean there are mighty lew anti-aircralt guns on the ground. Don't you think so, General Jarman? Giiai. JARiAN: Evidently they haven't enough anti­ aircraft defense, at Stalingrad, Mr. Thomas. And, when one city is being attacked by not hundreds but thousands of planes, every day, well you can imagine how much anti-aircraft defense that city might need. My guess is that the Russians haven't nearly enough. L^_T^_: Several months ago when I visited you at Fort Totten, General Jarman, you were telling me a little about our anti-aircraft defense which is under your command, a up and down our Atlantic Coast,. And, I believe you said we were short of material at, that time, and that we were sending most of what we made to our Allies. How is our anti-aircra,! defense against planes now? Not bad. -Ln jact, v;e are no longer We are reaching the point now short of material. where we need more men. 1-0 you think You'll ever get around to the point where ou'll need old boys with long beards, I like me? Yes, iir. Thomas, in a war of this magnitude, Uncle bam may need you and millions of others, to do work that is a little nearer to combat duty than your present jobs. General Jarman, here is an item that will interest you and your men who are sitting around me. It is some late figures on that Dieppe raid the other day. DIEPPE. Canada today revealed the exceedingly heavy losses that were suiiered in the great Commando raid against Dieppe. We have had the large casualty figures before, but today gives us a ratio* - a percentage. The number of Canadians fcfecFfc to >k part in the raid was about five thousand. The saxiiJ: casualties were three thousand, three hundred and sixty-seven Canadians killed, wounded or missing. That equals two-thirds of the attacking force. British figures have stressed the number of -A missing - taken prisoner. Today1s formal report by Canadian Defense Minister 1^=6^ Ralston, explains the heavy losses by saying that the Comrando raid failed to proceed according to schedule, ■wasTSecause the expedition was discovered prematurely by a small German Naval force. As a result, one Commando group, assigned to destroy a battery of Nazi artillery, failed to get ashore save for a fe» men. The Royal Regiment was twenty-minutes A behind schedule, and it was broad daylight when the landing was attempted. The royal regiment suffered what the Canadian defense Minister today described as - extremely heavy casualties. piEPPB - 2 - The troops went to attack through a joe deadly cross fire and were unable to hold a position ashore. Nevertheless, the Canadian Defense Minister characterizes the raid as a striking accomplishment. Through it the British and Americans gained important information aboutthe German system of defenses along the French coast and valuable experience raethdcds of overcoming them. Moreover, the raid forced the Nazis to bring up large air forces to check the raid - many squadrons of planes. And these were soundly beaten by the R.A.F. A VATICAN There is a great deal of speculation about the visit that President Envoy Myron Taylor is making to the Vatican. r European rumors connect the Myron Taylor trip to possible peace moves. But this is heartily discounted over here. A more likely opinion is that President Roosevelt’s Envoy will confer with the Pope on the subject of Nazi atrocities in the MBK3E occupied countries. The idea being - to chtxik the A^azi killing of hostages. Still another surmi is that Myron Taylor will confer with Pope Pius the Twelfth concerning the anti-Semitic bbh policy of the Vichy Government of France. Our own jcaxxKx government in Washington has indignantly denounced Vichy plans for deporting Jewish refugees in unoccupied France - handing them over to the Nazis. And in recent days the Roman Catholic Church has voiced a similar protest - the Vatic an jsternly reproving the z*]a»:EyiJijp:£KK Retain government for its anti-Jewish measures. Perhaps he one large purpose oi the Myron _ ay Lor mission is to arrange for joint American and papal action against French Anti- Semitism. AMERICAN SUB V»e have heard frequent stories about how near German U-Boats hang around our coasts - even tales of Nazi submarine men going ashore for a visit. Now let ws turn the thing the % other way around, putting the shoe on the other foot. Today at Los Angeles an American submarinea’ficer Ensign Defrees, son of Rear Admiral Defrees, told of experiences aboard an American submarine in Far Eastern waters. "We saw the mainland of Japan lots of times," he related. "We even imagined that we could ritstimraisfeB distinguish Asahi beer signs among the lifhts, andl^crew jolted about taking liberty in Xokohama". A There's an idea - the boys tempted to take shore leave in Japan. However, that is not the whole story. Ensign Defrees continued:- "We knocked off ana a number of Japanese merchantmen right off their own coast," he relates,* "and a destroyer came locking for us. Our first torpedo," the Ensign concludes, "hit him aani amidships and blew him up". S0/they didnU take shore leave but they sanx a *»ap destroyer, and that would seem to be a fair exchange - don't you think so, fellows? ENEMIES Today a vivid parallel was drawn between our two chief enemies, the Nazis and the daps, ^he speaker was Joseph C. Grew, who was our Ambassador to Tokyo when the war broke out. Obviously, after all his experience in Japan, Ambassador Grew is well acquainted with our Far Eastern foe. He knows the Germans too, - having served in our Embassy at Berlin for ten years. Today, his general she conclusion was - that the Germans will crack - but the Japs wonft. These two points he amplified as follows: - nI know the Germans well", said he. "They are truculent \ tKLrkuixi^^and bullying and domineering on the crest of the wave - demoralized in defeat. The Germans cracked in Nineteen Eighteen^and I steadfastly believe that when the tide of battle A turns against them - they will fcM crack again. nI know Japan," he went on. "I bxb lived there for ten years. I know the Japanese intimately. The Japanese wil not crack. They will not crack morally, psychologically or economically," he continued, "even when eventual defeat stares them in the face. They will pull their belts in another notch, ENEMIES - 2 to reduce their rations from a bowl ef a half bowl of rice, and X fight to the bitter end11. The logic propounded by Ambassador Grew is simple, and will appeal to all you soldiers. Japan must be utterly and completely defeated in battle. _ . - » ' in HIT AMERICAN PPIif.QNlRS The Unit d States today addressed a demand to enemy Japan. Through the neutral Swiss Government, Washington asked - does Japan intend to keep its international agreement for the humane treatment of prisoners of war? This query follows the Jap refusal to permit the Bed Cross to send a relief ship to Americans interned in Japanese territory. Secretary of State Cordell Hill points out that the Red Cross is permitted to do all that is needed for Japanese interned in this country. Do the Japs intend to reciprocate - or not? * This country wants to get food supplies to Americans interned in the fcs Far East, and the Secretary of State explains "The dietary habits of Americans are different from those of the Japanese people^, says he. In other words, the Japs don!t Exxk eat as we do. One of the principal complaints made by American newspapermen evacuat d from Japan concerned the matter oi food the fact that they were kept on a Japanese diet. This consisted largely of xa boiled alfalfa. They nearly starved. A BONDI d TS There was a twist of mocking iar irony today at the Jl New iork trial of twenty-five Readers of the Oerman-American bund, it was announced that the court proceedings against anti- Semitic Nazis will have a recess on Monday - because Monday is a Jewish holiday. It appears that one member of the jury is Mrs. Amelia ^pplebaum. bhe was accepted because the ^undist defense ran out of KfciitxHXE* challenges. They challenged so many prospective jurors that they could challenge any more when Mrs. Apnlebaum A appeared. Today the Judge remarked that Monday was Xom Kipter, and asked Mrs. Appiebaum if she would like to observe the traditional Jewish holiday** She replied that she would like ■^o — very much, whereupon the Judge announced that the trial of the pro-Nazi bundists would take a recess on Monday - Yom Kipper. PLAIiL Secretai y of the wavy Frame Knox gave answer today to aspersions cast on American warplanes in Alaska, fie used the words - nentirely unfounded". That expression he applied to the claim by Senator Walgren of Washington - that the Wavy #% planes way up north are quote a Joke and incapable of flying n more than a hundred and twenty miles an hour end quote. "Entirely unfounded", states the Secretary of the Wavy to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce which had made a suggestion that Captain Eddie hickenbacker, the World War Ace, be assigned to investigate the criticism of our planes. KAISER ShipbuilcL r i^ais r was authorized today to build planes. The War Production Board announces that Henry J. Kaiser will get the priorities with which to construct three giant experimental cargo planes - these to cost eighteen million dollars. In partnership with Millionaire Howard Hughes, Kaiser expects to complete the first super leviathan of the air in fifteen months - at ^ulver City, California. BOBBER ADMIHISTBATOR The President today issued an Executive order conferring power upon Y^illiam M. Jeffers, the newly appointed Rubber Administrator. He was granted the authority to carry out the suggestions made by the Baruch Committee which investigated the rubber situation. In particular, the new rubber boss is empowered to start nationwide gasoline rationing iaxa and to impose a national speed limit of thirty-five miles an hour. These -among other rubber saving measures. A dd R ubber Rubber Administrator Jeifers announces that his program rill go into effect by the middle of next wees. TfSSSSSBSMt senator In Washington, a Senator announces that he is going to deliver an apology because of something he said. Yesterday, Senator Ellison 0mith of South Carolina delivered an opinion of tXiJBLH things in general - as follows:- nWe are right smack dab in the middle of a jackass age”, said he. And that might seem a harsh and cruel thing to say about this beautiful world of ours. So the Senator is going to apologize. Today he declared:- nMaybevT was a little hasty in what I said. Anyway, I intend to apologize to the first jackass I see’y fa---- ef^w.l4-y- arotiMtii Mtiflhi«*e4'^tt|» 6U JWvO ^