PHILlPSmS V:, I94Z. A late War Department bulletin announces that a hundred and seven National Guardsmen escaped from the Batan Peninsula to Correpidor. They were members of the Two Hundredth Coast Artillery. The War Department reveals that there were some three thousand National Guardsmen -i ! in Batan, and except for the hundred and bx seven that escaned, all the rest atcsd be considered prisoners , A of the enemy. At Corregidor, •lap dive bombers have gone into action for the first time. Diving ste^y, they aimed their explosive missiles at our fortifications in Manila Bay, but the enemy aim was not so good. Most of the bombs dropped harmlessly into the water. The Japs are still trying to complete their occupation of the Philippine Island of Panay. The Army states that our troops have been forced to withdraw from two positions, but still fighting against NAVY j;OLLOW ^PHILIPPINES Our torpedo speed boats have scored another brilliant success. Two of them hit a Japanese light cruiser off the Philippine Island of Cebu and left it in sinking condition. This is announced in today* s late Navy bulletin, just in. The Jap light cruiser was protected by four destroyers, and the American torpedo boats had to get by them. They did, in a swift dash -- and blasted the cruiser. iiiiiMI rnmmsmm TOnO_BOMBING I As for the mystery of the bombing of Tokyo, I suppose Y/e might as well satisfy ourselves with "TCL c . President Eoosevelt's personal explanation. reveled today the base from which the American bombers flew when they blasted Japan last weekend. Their air base was - Shangri-la. The President indicates that there*s a secret American landing field in that beautiful <?<. vrvt- ' ~T~ Utopia in the paradise inhabited by monks who are forever young - as described by James Hilton in his novel - ’^Lost Horizon.” Our bombers took off from Shangri-la while the ever youthful monks chanted fantastic Tibetan liturgies, and when they returned afier bombing Tokyo, those IJ^mas who never grow old v;ere still chanting liturgies. This momentous disclosure v/as made at today s V'hite House press conference. Tne nev/smen asked the President about the Tokyo bombing mystery, and he told TOKYO_JOMBING - 2 : \ lli them that he had been asked that sane Question by a i sweet young thing. She was just dying to knov; all about it. The President mimmicked the sweet young kkiH^xxxS jcEKH? voice of the sweet young thing and told how he had given her the answer - Shangri-la. Maybe that*s just what the Japs are beginning ' i| to suspect. They show all the si^ns of mystification. And Shangri-lai^ might b^as good as their explanation **'^^*^!hree airolane carriers with the bombers flying on to . . So.'ctL China, after having bombed the Jap cities, - .................... --g-~|ri-pTrrfc==6g£g:::aA military secrecy, -j 4 the kind of secrecy calcula,ted to bewilder the enemy. Jaoan had some more air raid alarms today, ^ith further confused details of damage done by^^bombing. It would seem that the Japanese railroad system was hit to some extent. From an American bombing squadron in Australia, comes a story of just about the most extraordinary piece of aerial navigation on record, '^he pilot of\a big UniVed States Armyxbomber rV^^rted to tXe most primitive methodN^f steeringN^nd balancing - ^ a thing ^aditional\t^2aa?. You’xe heard olQ\stories oi^a ship lasting to o'n® side, and al\L hands oniyered to j the ^her side\)f the deckXtr.ying to kVep the crart. on even ke\l. SecondXLieutenant Barrie Burnside of anesvillX, V; is cons in,\applied thatXtechnique \o a situation thXt arose whenXlap Zero figXting planes got Into^vage and\lestructive bu&st of fire. It hapoened in one of the many bombings 0 f e ne bases in New Guinea. The heavy American bomber delivered its explosive blow with devastating success, and then started back to Australia. Suddenly, five Jap Zero fighters appeared and ganged the bomber in a vicious AlBPL4ilE5_, ^ ll T!' ttack. They got in a murderous burst of fire, and the jjj bomber wrs riddled by bullets and ripped by explosive I shells. The elevator and one propeller were shot to bits. Every man aboard was hit, except Second-Lieutenant Burnside. The pilot was badly wounded, Burnside dra|ged him out of his seat and took the controls. By now, Jhe bomber was plunging down toward the sea - apparently | to certain destruction. The Japs thought it waS a suie goner, and flew away. But Burnside at the controls was able to pull the olane out of its stricken dive, and level off just above the water. The plane was wobbling badly, and he couldn't gain altitude. ordered the crew to toss out of the forepart of the fuselage all the weight .o»naed did, find then Burnside told them to crawl to the back of the plane, as far back as possible - tip the tail down, nose up. That enabled him AIPPLAN^.;; to climb a. bit. t5u 1 th© bomber was wobbling worse than 4 77 > ^ . ever ~ am J ' ** stee-'inp crazily, ordered the crew to crawl forward somewhat, to change the balance. kept /I them movingy£ruiii~ Iitfl4j>'aato'>4rTmEfe» coordinating their weight with the operation of the controls, and the freakish turns and twists of the plane. And so the wounded men were kept crawling back and forth,^as part of the steering mechanism^until the bomber got back to Australia. Then, with the final exhibition of steering ^ by means of the damaged controls and the moving human Another story from Australia tells of an air He WEE the navigator and his assignment also placed him I* freight - Burnside brought it down^or a perfect landing. S ^ , battler fighting mad and a new type oi bomb - a ire ^ I extinguisher. An American bomber was attacking an enemy | i i Convoy, and one of the crew w'as Lieutenant Noel Upright. [ AlFPLiMi in charge of the bomber's fire extinguisher. They bombed a Japanese transp.ort, and were td within five thousand feet of it. of the enemy ship made Noel Wright A so fighting mad that he couldn’t restrain himself. He \ yanked out his forty-five automatic, and opened fire at the Jap vessel below. Having emptied his automatic, he grabbed the fire extinguisher - and threw it at the Japs. Today’s dispatch insists that his bombing aim with the fire extinguisher was so good that he scored a direct hit on the enemy transport. I wonder what the | Japs thought.’ Maybe they’re examining the fire Bxiin ‘ t I extinguisher to find out what new kind of bomb it is and how they can imitate it. mmmmmrn i medal It would appear that President Roosevelt ought to have a few lessons in an art he is going to have to practice more and more — the art of pinning on medals. Maybe he should take some instruction from an expert medal pinner? Today the Congressional Medal of Honor was awarded to America’s Number One War Hero -- Lieutenant Edward O’Hare. Or rather, Lieutenant- Commander. Because at the White House ceremony the President promoted the Navy sky fighter. This he did in perfect presidential form, which included a bit of F.D.R. joshing. The President displayed perfect form in reading the Medal oi* Honor citation, which included the following wordsj- ’’Without hesitation, alone and unaided, he repeatedly attacked an enemy formation at close range -- in the face of their intense combined machine gun and cannon fire. And the citation went on to relate how O’Hare shot down five IJ 111 i jt£DAL - 2 enemy bombers and seriously damaged a sixth. The President read that with his customary eloquence. And then he started pinning the decoration on Lieutenant-Commander O'Hare, But he couldn’t make the pin snap shut. He fumbled with it. ho go -- not such perfect form. No, the President is not an expert pin-snapper. Finally, in despair, he turned the job over to lirs. O'Hare. She's a bride of seven months, and was beaming at the honor paid to her hero bridegroom. Mrs. O'Hare is good at beaming -- she has just the kind of pretty face for it. Being the proper kind of Ifiride, she's expert with safety pins and such. So she took over the presidential job, and snapped the Congressional i\ledal on in a jiffy. So, you can say. in a way -- that today the nations's Number One Hero was decofated by his bride. -- the President of the United States assisting. J IflEIA In India, the British commander disclosed today the plan ^ expects to use in case of Japanese invasion. A General Sir Archibald Yiavell stated that any Jap attempt to land will first be hit by heavy bombing forces - including American planes. Ifdo succeed in getting ashore, they will be met by swift concentrations of troops against any threatened point. The British-India defense v/ill be mobile, prepared to move swiftly against forces at any place along the extended Indian shore. V/avell indicated that the Japs might because their sea power controls the Bay of Bengal. A He added, however, that i‘t won't be long before warships of the United i Nations drive the enemy from that strategic sea - "not far distant," said the British Commander. SIRGIRJA.^BM?1I_-_TAFT n One of the questions most often asked in America these days is: 'Ahat will the people of India do if the Japanese invade that country? Will they help the invader as the inhabitants of Malaya did, and as the Burmese have been doing? Will they turn against the British and knife them in the back? Sir Girja Bajpai, India’s first diplomatic emissary to this country, has just answere(ithat t • i Question in an address at the Taft School, where prominent men from all over the world have been giving| the young men of Taft a picture of what hs is p i happening these days and what their responsibilities are likely to be. Said Sir Girja: India has an army now of over one million men, ready to fight the Japanese. Then he added that every party and every leader in India realize^that India's dream of freedom will only come true if the Democracies are victorious. "India's need," said Sir Girja, "is not SIR GIRJA_-^2. for man power nor for small arms, but for planes and more planes. With them,” he said with great emphasis, "our seaports and our vital centers can be defended by iiiiiHS India's army of one million fighting men.” Ri: j AI I i.dy ll i 'A t 51 FRANCE In France, Laval today conferred with Hitler's personal envoy, and the doped out some more collaboration. The meeting took place in Paris. The British are intimating that the Laval oration of yesterday was in part designed to cause dissension between the United States and Great Britain - iij an attempt to create a rift. The British point out that, while the arch collaborationist savagely denounced the British, he did not mention the United States in any of his insulting diatribe. Our Ambassador to France, Admiral Leahy, today received a multitude of condolences for the death of his wife. Officially recalled by the President, he was unable to leave because of Mrs. Leahy s illness. She seemed to be getting better aftern an operation thSn had a relapse. it isn't clear just how soon the Admiral will now return. ) p ^ ents President i^oosevelt has just announced that allj ( t patents controlled by the enemy will be taken over by / the Government^^^^Instructions to that effect have been given to Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley. This or der of seizure applies to patents controlled both directly and indirectly. They’ll be seized and made available for the war purposes of th is country and | the United Nations. The President also made it plain that these enemy patents will not be returned to Axis countries after the war. They’ll be hexd by us. This presidential order follows many disclosures % about patent comb in at ion^ Germany^ cartels in | which American and Nazi firms participated - with exchanges of patents and various restrictions that y affectHhe production of materiels in the United States. We heard today of a prospect of removing enemy aliens from the East cost, just as they are being removed from the West coast. This was stated by United States Immigration Commissioner, Earl Harrison, at Philadelphia. He toldjof the probability of removing enemy aliens from defense plant areas and sectors of military importance along our Atlantic seaboard. "It’s only a question of time," said he. He suggested a program similar to that now in operation on the West coast - wih the setting up of loyalty boards to determine the friendly, doubtful and dangerous^<e?f^^S^^6^ among the aliens .^ iTicr4s^^re_a-mi ^4.ion of these, and the Commissioner added the rather M surprising detail that se/enty per cent of them are women. Which, of course, would indicate that women have not become naturalized at the same rc*te as men. is ! 3 I If I t H !j H ^ ! I ‘‘I! republicans The Republican National Coaaittee meeting in Chicago ends t=g7li!=y- ^ith a note familiar in politics -- the financial note. Of course, the main thing was the resolution setting forth the G.O.P. position in the campaign leading to the fall elections for Congress. tt :. The unofficial sort of platform represents a sort of compromise, but it leans to the side of Wendell Willkie. A iL seemed that Willkie might lose out -- in li his demand for an anti-isolationist resolution that would commit the Republican Party to full international cooperation after the war. The clause finally adopted is a good deal less drastic t'han the one submitted by Willkie^^^^^^ titular leader of the party. The G.O.P. goes on record as affirming the nation responsibility in a world settlement, (^nd that's regarded as a proof of the party leadership, titular and otherwi^, for the Nineteen Forty-Two Republican Campaign.T Senator Taft, spokesman for the former isolationists, expresses .Hd dis.pprovdl. fl. thought tho Bopublic.o Part, republicans -2 r should not yet co*ii.ait itseli to after-war policies. is a mistake but that it is moderate enough for all Republicans to support. The question of party position out of the way (7 to the committee went on^the inevitable financial angle - and today Chairman Joe Martin said the G.O.P. would conduct what he called -- "a poor man’s campaign." M k They won’t spend much money. "Conditionssaid he, "do not warrant the expenditure of huge sums W' uiuipgy for political purposes.^* I At the same time Joe Martin says that the ns are not badly off financially. better shape than usual. He pointed out that in Nineteen Thirty-Seven the National Committee had a debt of a million and a half. Today the Republican Party owes a maximum of ten thouscnd doxlars. ilii <« 11 \ ahiniL Lhe-pTtropGe4rs for--trh£. BUSINFS^EN War Production Piief Donald Nelson stated more trouble in persuading able business men to come to Washington and lend their services to the war program. Why are the businessmen reluctant? Because y Donald Nelson c"criticism and veiled point," said he, "where if you know something about a business you are suspected - because you know something about a business." He said that the criticism of emanates largely from Congress. And he added that it may come to the point where you'll have to draft business men to work for the war effort. These statements were made to a Senate Investigating Committee,^ ^nd tj^ ^nators promptly sensitive about xritiKis»3C criticism today that the Yfar Production Board is having more and | 3 df I ii" I I I, allusions.'’ They are held in suspicion. "It has got to BUSINESSMEN - 2 Senator Connal^y of Texos sssss^ "If those dollsr-a /■ 4 year aen are truly patriotic they should take the Dunishment. ^ Senator Truman of Missouri added that the business men should develop what he called ^’an elephant hide attitud^ To this b'onald Nelson replied, ^V,^e *5?^ developing g; A A f] thicker hides every day, sir, and.before I put any man to work I warn him that he is swimming in a goldfish bowl." All of th v/hich points to a new kind of natural ohenomenon - an SSrT±^ swimming in a goldfish bowl. VJh—l-g a-latu iLg>m " ay 1 r a r d o v rl n n i rrf*—r o 1 df~i oh ^^ wh“i^le Tit^lIcitig A t ftr o‘Tr^4^—the —