INFUTI2N <A- Evidently President Roosevelt will have his own way over the anti-inflation bill. His partisans in the Senate have defeated the Farm Bloc. A late message from Washington reports that the Farm Senators virtually admitted they were licked. They offered a coraproraise amendment whereby farmers would be ^ueranteed for cost of production plus a reasonable profit. The Administration Senators rejected that compromise and stood pat. They will, however, accept the amendment the Roosevelt Senators themselves oifered. That is, an amendment which directs the President in fixing the ceiling on farm prices to take Labor costs into consideration, but it does not require him change the existing parity formula. USbIA In the _ ttle of SJ alingrad the Germans brought up large numbers of reinforcements by plane. It would have gone hard with the Russians, if they one i had not done sir—U-u^ bqu&drons of flying troop transports were brought to the scene of fighting by both sides. 'Shradmitted by the Nazis #txgiax p / jl LUz~. t4. f. et, Wrrwrys-T^gaa A‘ / J. O' . ^ ' There was one piece of news from Stalingrad 'i/r&Q rthat we have not been hearing for some time. Furious \ battles ragin in the sir over the beleaguered city. For several weeks o&st the dispatches have been > reporting that German planes were cruisin; at «*=» leisure over the Russian lines, bombing at will, to o it*. . . hoar that Russian fi,hter it=:ts=5=fccfcfc encouraging to hear tnai, -u* A squadrons were attackihg the Nazi bomber formations constantly. However, Moscow ao'iito t.u.t the continue to h'.ve the preponderanor—- -- RUSSIA 2 The reinforcements to the Re" into action immediately. The bitterest kind of hand-to- han. Sfcfcfejsz ha^ been going on in the huge manufactur" plants and shipyards which extend along the banks of the Volg a. £seE=tip£3»*». The Russians *=t ■z-iui-Ca; have recaptured two Stalingrad streets.?** t-tnj- According to Soviet communiques of the last few v/eekst no fewer than eighty-four thousand Germans were killed at Stalingrad in the first twenty-six days of September^ The Axis also one thousand, two hundred and fifty tankas. here is pessimism n London about bialingrad. British militarv observers, analyzing the news, point out that thefcermons have driven a wedge into th^ neart of the city/ind are tightening their gn: . tne FUSSIA_- gallant; o n Ci solut-f? co unt-6r-8.,t't8ck of ^ai'sha.l Timoshenko h^s not vFrnkened the Nazi situation to any important extent. ■$Uzr- I r The Berlin radio broadcast a claim that Nazi columns are now in the northern part of Stalingrad. They boast further that this part of the city has been absolutely cleared of Russian troops. Rua-a-n-ian— ^ wirtdi—tdtes, A later dispatch from Moscow admits that, although the Ruslans recaptured two streets, they lost .-round in other parts of the city. seems to kx confirm the German claim of having penetrated into the northern section. IS A for forty miles along the west hank of the Volga. The principal effort of the German general staff is to cut it in two and disorganize the defenders. Monitors nnd onrsd bets on th. Volgn -rnrina . const.nt rain of bo.bs to mUt™ » and remove the wounded tvV ft^vCV\ ^ titalingrad is a peculiar city, » extenos L.T. SUNOCO M^nd eotemb er_28j_ 12/2 Good Eveninp, Everybody: News from the Aleutians tonight, and fairly good news. A strong force of army bombers and pursuit planes appeared suddenly over Japanese base A Kiska Island# iflh. '•tyl'im'j nnmL. accompanied by planes of the Royal Canadian Air Force. They attacked the Japanese installations, cestroyed seven^a*—fighters, and set a Jap transpo t on *ire. She was damaged so badly that she later had to be beached. Furthermore, more than one hundred and fifty Japanese were hilled or wounded in the attack, and th^'J^ra* raised havoc with a couple of submarines a ?r. . and landed bombs on shore installations. This is the first report we have had from the^ Navy on fitting in Aleutians 1 another Navy communique about the j-ie'htin^ in . ^ ho omori. . In. the last four days the .L x-ie s of our army, navy and Marine Corps have shot down forty-two Japanese planes. ix Not a single one of our own have been lost in that period. Aside from that they bombed four ships in the boiomons and hit two cruisers, one of which was left burning. An enemy seaplane tender was damaged and a large transport set afire. That ft as at Betata Bay on Santa Isabelle Island. Marine^ on Guadalcanal and Florida are constantly patrolling th and bombing the Japanese ground forces. Several small enemy units have been engaged and destroyed. r rrd’eG s-ometHwi-r-N-a-vy. fobtressss , Our flying fortresses ht tij bombgg3=:rs^!=s visit to the Harbor of Rabaul on the island of New Britain tcni~T=33='T»*=e= 7 t.,, >*, ^he commodious modern harbor built by thefcermans, taken by the Australians, then captured by the Japanese^ Site J a p-g"-madia -it qb » t~~hT;^gs —-^r^t The fortresses came down on Rabaul at dawn 4^/ —, . . . today andhad the good fortune toa 1 arg€|Jap-*44-tw- xgiKant merchantman, a fifteen-thousand toner^ <^w I, . . • ^ , ^they made fewM* direct nit^s^ 1 n* i tur a gi s-ee-n-^f—' ■ h o planes-r-s-they ■ fdj^ ^ 5sss=^ column of smoke risin.^-rom the shi... frundr gd--feirb—hi7»-h. Four days in succession now the fortresses ,ve b«n boobing Bobaol Harbor. One da, the, a ant eight-thousand toner and hit a nediu.-siae shi,. OPT_E^lb._-_L & ^V) 'l£~^(j(lso l; nd pg (aai^^riiTgTj—two raoref *" squadron of inedium bombers -*nv ^ t - u - i - u = ct destroyer: an enemy transport off the southeast tin of New Guinea*. The fortresses xfc have also been striking at Buna on the north coast of New Guinea, and the nearby J bo base of Gona. Yesterday they made a fresh attacK on the Jaoanese airfield in Bougainville Island, the largest enemy base in the Solomons. NEW GUINEA The Japanese invasion columns in New Guinea have been building a road through the center of the island to S' eed up the sending of supplies to their vanguard. The Americans and Australians have tried to prevent this by a constant series of attacks. But they have not succeeded. The Japs are laying a corduroy road built of logs and earth over that difficult Owen Stanley range. Military observers admit that the enemy have shown the greatest skill and perseverance. But for the fact that the Allies have control of the air over New Guinea, the Australians would now oe defending Port Moresby itself. ferpy pilots There are many young men in this country who would like to have the job of ferrying those giant planes that are winging their way around the world these days, the big planes turned out by our factories in this country and then sent to England, Alaska, Australia, Russia, China and soon. Sitting beside me is a man v/ho should know a lot about that. For he is the Acting Director of Pan American Air Ferries, which is in Florida trains young men as ferry pilots. His name is Bob Crawford and he is a chap with a sar colorful past, and an equally colorful present. Bob Crawford was born in the heart of Alaska. His two main interests in life are music and aviation. For many years he has been a pilot. And for many years he has been a baritone concert symphony orchestras H star, leader of anV0mP0SPF FERRY PILOTS 2 All of yew have heard Bob Crawford's songs. The whole country is singing one of them at present. It Is the official song of the Army Air Corps. Bob is playing it softly on the piano at my el cow, rignt at this moment. But, I*m going to ask him to forget about music for a moment and tell|us about his job as Acting Director of Pan American Air How are the ferry pilots trained, Bob? BOB CRAWFORD: Oh, they come to us in various ways. Some of them are veteran pilots with many years of experience. Some are Dutch flyers who piloted planes for K. L. M., until the schedules of that great Dutch airline Dutch airline interrupted first by Hitler A and then by Hirohito. But, most of them, the men whom we are now training down at Miami, come to us through the C.P.T, the c ivilian training system FERRY.PILOTS - 3 which is open to young college men throughout the country. The civilian training that our boys are getting in our colleges is of the ourr-y best. Much better than you might think. The boys come to us after they have had several hundred hours of civilian flying. L.T. Air Corps Most of them go straight into the Army *4vOt-' ^ 7 BOB CRAWFORD: Yes. But, the Army sends some of them to us. Every boy is not temperamentally fitted to be a pursuit pilot. Some are just the right type to take big planes off from flying fields in this countryf put the. .ay »P «-cr. in the atrato.ph.r, and then land the. ripht on the dot on the ether aide of the ocean, in Africa, and all the other places • sonn3 oi t.hc boys where our planes are being seno. , Persia, Russia, India of course fly them on to Egy. * * PEPPY PILQTS - 4 and China. And surely that's one of the most interesting jobs in the world. L j X l And surely your job# Bob, which you and your colleagues of Pan American Air Ferries are doingy is of enormous importance. Itgd to get away A from aviation again and just-ferr sr aom-eat back to music, not satisfied with writing the official song of the Army Air Corps, J’lyer Bob Crawford has just written another song for the mechanics, entitled "The Mechs Of The Air Corps", full of all the strange sounds and the strange language used by the lads who get the planes ready to fly. you1!! be hearing it everywhere. 'ihep. rmans today were broadcasting loud-sounding claims that they had sunk three American troop ships. The Nazi High Command issued a statement that their U-boats i i ) ; ed three -arge liners in a convoy, one nineteen - t n o us and tons, another seventeen thousand, and the third eleven thousand. To thi s^btH* —makes ijo reoly. As a matter of oolicy neither the British Admiralty nor the United comment. This rule was laid States down early in the progress of the war because it has been an Axis policy to make extravagant claims for a direct our pose. The purpose, IN* to taunt A114-6S 1 A into deny in p the Axis claims in such fashion as to give information of military value. As a matter of fact, our transport convoys to the other side nave b- en remarkably successful. At the same time it was admitted in London today CONVOY - O t.hctt th 1 N?'Zi U-ViOH-iLc I i & vg bGGn more snd. niorG a.ct/ivG in the Atlantic,particularly in the convoy lanes. raiders into the waters around the British Isles and Iceland. Earlier in the $ear those waters were comparatively free because the U-boats were concentratin: on the waters off theAmerican coasts. This ccmes as an xnfciKiiisfcK antidote to fcte* ^xe-efrrHsv-)** optimism about enemy submarines tluUr—w-8P6 ~ i i. _ _i_ X a . XT Tx ■4’ last week told that the U-boats off our own shores were being controlled cine tnat sinkings were much fewer. Now it seems that the N^zi High Commend has merely shifted their undersea raiding packs to other waters. ate convoy Later this aYternoon the Nazi High Command claimed to have dan aged two large trc.nsports as well as having sunk three. I'JORRIS up Senator George W.Norris of Nebraska hafmade his mind. Yes, he will run. ^ until the last moment to decide. But hen J A himself. Sixteen thousand people in Nebraska had signed netitions nominating ^nTrl-g~T'eor^ tn snen himself. this afternoon it was announced that he had accepted. hr&Ji d- settles^question that has been up in the air for months. Uncle George is eighty-one years old and said several times in the course of the last year that he thought he had had enough. . keld—i-n^ ft Mr *+* —_.K^^ggrTrf:--Ui4^1ll^b e g g e d him to stick the job, sGf±np=i2Ctha t his experience, integrity nd sage city c^re needed in the Senate. A SCBAP DFIVi ^ ' ci-^ i p‘‘ 1 3-^or is being urged "bo join in th.e drive to collect scrsp mets.1. The xs5cd word csiae from Phillip Mur ay, President of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. He has written to all the C.I.o. affiliates, suggest ing. ^that Labor Unions roll up their sleeves and join with all other groups in a united effort to collect scrap. V7ashington reports that the campaign of the last twoSundays was /phenomenal success. Something /\ pounds of scran were collected. like f i ve - t' i u u n f' tw o - h und r ed - and forty-two thou Send MFAT_ Ve may be short of T-bone steaks and prime rib roasts hbxs next year, but one article of meat will be with us always. Ew^^The obiquitous hot • once kno'n the alien eaany—of wienie. I /? S' A y( 1k^7in1nrmation comes from the Natural Casino A lArfUli I ns 1 1 1 u t e sent a wire tt> Secretary of Apriculture A V.ickard today saying Americans need not be denied an adeouate and wholesome supply of meat^ \; uu % id an unusual amount of beef and pork trimmingF hot dog is made.