, - . - - - - - - ; ; ; , , ; - - , . . - - - . . - - - ~ - - e~~7.o As the Allie~advance to wa rd Rome what about the Vatican? Madrid has a report that foreign diploaats assigned to the Papal court have started to burn their confidential papers. Also -- secret docuaenta . of the Vatican Secretary of State are being deatro7ed. The reason, says Madrid, is that nob~dy knows whether or not the Germana will respect the aeutralit7 of the Pope if the advance of the A lliea forces the• out of Bo■e. Madrid has a still more dra■ atic ru■or -- one which tells of an extremely secret document which the Pope has sent to his representatives in various countries. This document is to be p resented to the governments of the countries in the event that the Germans, in their retreat from Rome, take the Pontiff with them. The ~--p~ •adrid story relates th a t - . might be compelled to /\ tltIGAI - 2 go to lorth Italy or to Geraan_y as a la1i riaoaer. They say th secret doc ■eat c nsists of a aol•u protest against the Yiolation ot Yatican neutrali\y and the aeiaur• of the Pope as a p risoner -- ia cae• thi• happena. lTALY • There are not many of us who will remember our school-day Roman history well enough to recall ~ the River VultArnua. 1hat streaa t~•• played an i ■portant part in the warfare of those remote ti ■ ea, when the power of Ro ■ e was being formed. Today the Italians have changed the name of the river slightly. ~ I~•* They call it the Valt~rno headlines today. ' and it ta in the General Clark'• Fifth Ar ■Y has broken the ~ line of the VeltArno, has stormed through the lazi . £ ' north of laples which the lazla were holding as thei first line of defense of Rome. he new Allied advance after was accomplished•• heavy fighting~ in the course of ~ ~ which the Fifth Army captured two i~portant towns, Aversa and Maddaloni. Each is on one of the two main trunk lines leading to Rome, with the t~n of Aversa I being especially important. General Clark's artillery is now within range of Capua, th4;,t~ mentioned so S. ~ a ... • ,,,lo.~ t,;.- ~C, ,..,,_ . • auch in the story of Banni'1,a1.~ t I a pi ■ a1 u au• 4t ~ e v w .A /\within ninety-seYen ailes of Roae . - ~-----ca.-.. --ic-._.---... -... :---~---- A l l along the hundred-mile front_. the Italian ~ peninsula heav7 fighting is on~~~~ T,-)t the Adriatic side, the British Eighth army has fierce fighti on its hands. At Temoli, where they made a sui,priae flanking landing,British and Canadian troopa ar~ driving against the heaviest kind of resistance. At last reports they were att a cking a aountain town eight miles fro ■ Teraoli and had captured a strategic hill on the bank ~ ~ It of a river -- this in the face of ilau l11aot..1r: rtA Wf /!'- ~-- .. machine gun, ■ ortar, and artillery barrage. Th~•• ia 1aid to be a r p ar guard force coverin~;ithdrawal, but they are hard-fighting rear guards.-fueanwhile air ai action is on all over the place, with hedge-hopping ll!LI - J_ fighters and light bombers assailing Nazi communicationa. The big bombers, the ta7 to the railroads saashed the railroad _ ,1 ards at Bologna in one of their ■ ost successful raids. At Ro ■e wholesale looting is reporte4. The lazis in the town are said to be stealing everythin1 they can llJ their hands on -- and there is a lot to steal in Rome. London pictures the lazia as contiscatin pict urea, ancient manuscripts, ·art treasures -- 41ts; :as• looting those incredible treasures of art and culture in the Eternal C i t y , - - : f o . , - i - ~ ~ ~ - t o , ~ ~ . ~ ~ ~~ ~~ - ~. ~~ ~~~v~. BJSSIA_ The new• from Russia is sua■ arized in t•r•• words, which describe today's events on the Eastern Front. A late coa■unique from loacow 1tatea: , •■ o iaportant changes•. fill IS.Lill)_ The lavy has just announced another attack against the Jape on ake Island. A Task force iashed to that island aade faaoua by the heroiaa of the Marin and ~helled Japanese position•.a::•hile planes from carriers blasted the a w ith boab~•~· - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ,. President Roosevelt today asked Congress for authority to declare the independence of the Philippine Islands at an early date. As the law stands, the Filipinos are to have their legal freedom and sovereignty as a nation on July Fourth, lineteen Forty- six, and the idea i• to advance that date. The Jape, ~~ k••• for propaganda purposes, have~announced Philippine that-E,, Several weeks ago Senator Tydings of Maryland fl introduced a bill to itzxfi give the President tne right to negotiate with President Manuel Quezon for imaediate independence. And the President today supported the idea in his request to Congress. llAlL t -£.. k.:t- ~ • .,fl.I v The Senate~cda, •s»usi t""substitute 11 ■c~ki■9 draft of Pearl Barbor fathers. The substitute is a aeas . ure to restrict - . deferraent of Government employees. Senator Wheeler, the sponsor of the bill to delay the drafting of aarried men with children, has been charging all • along that there are a lot of men in Government serYice , who should be taken into the ar111, and th• substitute for•• his ■eaaure is along that line -- a prop08al to do something about men who are kept out of the draft because they work for the Government.••• tbe •••• yers sion ine President Roosevelt has just announced the f■z■ali•• setting-up of an organizati~n·for post-war public works. By executive order the Presilent arranges in advance for a public works prograa to combat post-war uneaployaent. T y the W r Food Administr tor resented to Con ress the firs official picture o f American food prospects for Nineteen Forty-four. Marvin Jones reveals that the program calls for the merican farmer to plant a record acreage of crops -- three hundred and eighty million acres in Nineteen forty-four. ftllen ~ixteen million more than last year~ Nineteen Forty-two. He stated at the same time that civilians n ext ye r will receive about seventy-five percent of this year's total food production -- the other twenty- five percent to go to the armed forces n~Lend Lease. That; eevaat-1 .£iTe percent for --nex+, yeap compe _ pee with~ eight,1 ei• pePeeat t~e ppoportion of t~e feed suppl~ tila~ ■ xxx ciriliane ¥e0eivea laet ycaP, All of lfxaii 1'this was disclosed by Food Administrator Marvin Jones who appeared before the A ricultural Committee of the House of Re resent a tiv e s. He m a de an ap eal to the Committee, an d once a ain we hear th t much debat d word -- Subsidies. Th Food dministrator told the committee th a t the paying of Subsidies to food p roducers is the · b st way to increa e production. All along there has been plenty of Congressional opposition to Subsidy, and there is no sign th t this has diminaished. To ay Con ressman Wolcott of Michigan denounced the Subsidy plan and charged that it was intended to be a prelude to the socialization of agriculture. ( He -- among White Ho--use ot4 ~D FO O ~ __ OG A __ The l at es t i a e ort ca( the me t situati n for Nineteen Forty-four, a report th a t says to civilians -- don't xpect more meat ne x t y ea r, you'll ~ get less. The ar Food Ad m inistration has ju s t issued a forecast stating that there will be fewer livestock next year than this year, a sharp I\ reduction. And -- there will be a twenty-five ercent boost in the amount of meat the Government will -- require for military uses, Lend Lease and so on. " Today St bi izati o n irector v·n on t s ified before the House ~ ys nd Means Committee which is considering the ten and a half billion dollar tax pro ram proposed by the Ad~inistr tin. The Stabilizati n Director declare< the tha;,(ten and a half billi o n doll rs to be raised by ... taxation Ml! a minimum nece sity. Unless Con 5 ress imposes the taxes, he argued, it will be impossible to check inflati n, fa ■ akxi•fiaas break the bl ac k markets, and sustain A the war effort. Meanwhi e, there still seems little chance that Congress will agree to the bu e tax program, ~ith the re~t incre as e of income tax th t i t will entail. Republican Congr ssmen continue to echo a decllrati o n by f~ Democr ~t ic Ch irm n D o u hton of North Carolina ~ ---- that t e Anministr·tion ~ plan dem ds far more than the indivi ual taxpayer can pay. Op o n _ nts of t 1 e measure reit rate their argum nts th a t the ay~ to me e t t h e fin an cial demands of war ' ~ economy a nd a sal tax.~ngressman Xnudsen of Minnesota st ted to da y th t forty perc e nt of the ten and a half billion dollars th t the Administration wants could be eliminated through rigid savin g s ix on the art of the Gov e rnment. 0 - I O O ~ A . ? Y L 1 --- ---------~------- A g entlem a n h s just come into the studio w ith a bouquet of roses. He is Mr. Ro b ert Pyle, of West Grove, Pennsy vania, for ei gh t years Secretary and four years President of the American Rose SocietJ. He has asked me for a moment to tell about a bouquet of glowing yellow roses th a t he has just brought into the studio. We are all puzzled about them. And Mr. Pyle wants to tel l us. JJB, rxi.11- T h is p articular rose w aa bred in Franc•• and •••en cuttln11 ot it I brouaht to Aaer1ca on the loraan41•• la lineteen Thlrt7-eight. Attar nationwide te1t1 the roae ha• been a warded t o p ~ b7 the " Por\laa4, Ore1oa, International Roae Teat Gardea, ••• ha1 been acolal ■ e4 •• one ot th• ta■oua All-A ■erlcaa ro•• aelec\lona. Bo•• growers seek for new roaea a popular aa ■e. An4 thia oae baa b••• giYea 7our n•••• Tbat•• •h7 I bre•1bt 7ou thia bouqae\ cat fro■ aaona fi•• thouaa■4 plaa\1 ia our Conard-'11• field• of roaea at Wea\ G••••• Peaaa1l•ania. -·•·· I don't know how to expr••• •1 thanka, but ~ , I think it would ha•• been more appropriate to na■e .,,,,. the thorn• after•• -- not the roaea. /.- . J.. L --------- A G. ee. · t· n a l r.~man problem a eared sudden y to c a y in the ost unex ected o all p l a ces the orld Seri s. A am ily tr age y unsettle the entire Seri e s outlook of the St. Lo is Cardinals. For several seasons the Cards ave been noted for a family an le -- th t st ~r b a ttery o theirs, Cooper , a nd Cooper. It ts not so unusual in baseball for two brothers to figure in the same game -- on r·val teams most often. But here ere Morton and Walker Cooper, star pitcher and star catcher res p ectively, on the ed to do their ~ angle alone ga ve If ud ■: 1 & ga me a ••P s ecial flavor and then wba should a en? The ne w s ~1a hed th i r ftther had ied suddenly t i s mornin£ i n t. L ouis. n I'D I. ha y L tr-=4 O::t: S h o u 1 d t e y hurry b a ck to th ir ~~~~- home,in St. L ouieA-- and never mind tod y's forld Series game? They had been mighty close to their f ther, and the unexpected shock of his death was enough to unnerve them. anager Billy Southworth of the Cards could hardly h a ve stood on his authority, end ordered them to stay and play -- although St. Louis's hope in the World Series depended so much on the strong right arm of Mort Cooper. So Southworth left it up to the two brothers. How did they figure out their problem, a problem so deeply human? -;?ifA. father, a rural mailman for forty years, had taught them baaeball, h a d helped them to become Big Leaguers. His death, in fact, had come about because of his intense concern for the team in which his wo boys were stars. ~ ~ed a b;e:spt ailmeft~, Y ~- ~ esterd a y he had b e e n ~ excited by the 1, ballgame -- which the C r ds ma lost. L as t evening he read tk• and re-read the newspapers tellin g a bout -tJ:..c.,,. . ..,,1J."-•·~ P---,eR.4w-_. it and d ur · n f the night b::i s heart ga•w wa,:: · ~ 1~ . It \ as as Mort Cooper said to his brother lalker today just before game time: "I guess he was just rooting too hard for us." They asked each other what would their father have wanted them to do today? The big pitcher, Mort Cooper, anawered: "Wll play, and we'll win -- because that's what he would want us to do. We'll win this So that as the human drama,· as Mort Cooper walked out to the pitcher's mound, and his brother, and it added a rat a nd poignant .. inter est to t h e pla y o f t he gam e, t h e hitting, t he fie l din g a nd especia l ly the pitching and the catching~ ~ '"t:w-e, ~ _ You felt the C a rds just had to win. Ev e n the hottest Yankee fan couldn't escape th a t emotion -- that t h ~ t h e r s h d to win that game for Po~ 6 7f.l. ~1£.,a"'-b, p-1¼,-.lwf...o ~~. 7finning after inning it seemed certain th a t they would the happy nding on its way. Mort Cooper pitched superbly, His rival, Yankee Pitcher J u m b o ~ , pitched a ~ game too. But the Cards took a lead of fortycaix to one, and everything va s rosy frantic ninth inning--:t'In the last half of until that the ninth the Yanks cut loose. Billy Johnson, the first hitter, amakEK smacked Mort Coo p er for a double. King Kon g Ke ll slugged the b a l l for a triple,and later scored. The ""'· ' ~ stands were in a frenzy. Two run~w•12 ~ s c o r e d - . four to three. The Y ank s n e edin g on e to tie wer e mash in t h e b a 1 s ava ely. It loo k d as if t h e icked im s o f b aseba l l ere con t riving a l u g ubri us fi n i h f or t he Coo er brothe r s on th d a y o f th dea th of th e ir f a ther. Joe Gordon as up, "Flash" Go . d on wh o hit a home run yesterday. And then came the pay that ended the game w ith the p erfect touch: Gordon hit a high fly behind the plate, and Catcher Walker Cooper went after it. Two were out, and here was his chance to clinch his brother's victory~ It took a long run. And th ball was spinning. Nearly bounced out of his glove, but he hel d it. And th a t ended the most dramatic baseb a ll game ever pl a yed, so deep in human drama.