- - ----------- / : lll.IlfilLl].QJ.T C,j __ ~ ~ , ~-l~l'fl/-c/-. I • On the e s t er n Front, a hun ry, muddy, battle- tired sold i er w a s apolo g izin g to his commanding officer bec a use he and the rest of his company of en g ineers had retreated. Said First Class Private G-AR.NerT Harry Qre•si. of Conshohoken, Pennsylvania: •You can't do "!If much against a tank with a rifle, Sir.• ~-e-.&nJ Actually. that unit of le\ trMi~~ G.I'a had been forcei back by no fewer than thirty Nazi panzer& and half-tracks full of troops. Private Wilson of Ocean Springs, Yissippippi, told another detail of the disaster with the words: Q 'Just after we had finished chow, ten German araored vehicles rolled into the town.• And Texas exclaimed: •If w e only had some a private from bazookas{ £y{ what we could have done with ba~ookas!• .r+ ',e not esa1 +,1 fig••• e11i ci1Jst whet k beppeniag aftei the first def.e.at cf ea ~lliea a1I) Little b y lit le, we learn how i•z far the g re a t German count e r-att a ck has smashed the la lines of the Americ an First Army. For obvious re as ons, neither t he Nazi Hi g h Com m and nor our 01n is giving out details. There is a blackout _ of the news for security re ns ons. However, the Nazis boast that 0 they took General Hod g es and his completely by surpris and the quoted remarks from lips of our dougbboys to bear this out. But eports that filter in give an alarain depth picture of the aal ■ as of the German penetration.•• p Late this afternoon, came a bulietin that a formation ' of Allied planes g o t ~ o f twenty German h~lf tracks "'- A and attacked them eighteen miles inside the Belgian frontier. Thm later news is •■zat worse than that. The London News Chronicle, reports that the Nazis h a ve recaptured Malmedy, a town where several important highways meet in Bel g ium. Air Force pilots report that the Rundstedt counter-offensive has swept our First Aray · . "' in front of 1t for twenty one miles in t h ree d a ys. ·" !l§!~H~_rflQ_! - 3 The Germans id this in the face of violent attacks by Americ a n fliers, •ho recke or s••••K•i damaged no f · r tl 0 hundred and twenty one armored vehicles during this one day·:___.._....------------. We are told that our own generals have ordered swift troop movements to block thft great offensive of Field ~arshal von Rundstedt. -------~~--- ...... Natur lly Eisenhower give us no particulars about bis counter-measures. On both sides there is a blackout of news. All we may infer is that at thi ■ ■ oment a terrific battle is raging along a fluctuating battlefront of some seventy miles. • Ins ite of the heavy German pressure on the Allies in the west, there still ia no si g n of a offensive in Poland. The report from oscow tonight again emphasizes the battle for Hungary. The soviet high command announces that the Red armies have thrown the Germans b a ck out of northeastern Hungary, into eastern Slovakia, on a sixty-eight mile front. They've cleared the Nazis entirely out of the area . northeast of Budapest. Berlin admitted that the Russian operations along the Czech border were increasing in ~~ --U--4~.• -- Yiolence. · The Nazi repor~ wla1ia,t •It is here that the Soviet command is expecting its next success." . As for the siege of Budapest itself, the reports are conflicting. One of them has it that Red soldiers are fighting the.Nazis hand to hand, in the defense of the Hun ~ar ian c ap ital. _The Co · munist paper PRAVD of o ne army of the A re p orted the shock troops RUSSIA - " _________ _......_ Ukraine as only five and a half miles from the city limits in the northeast. The free Hungarian radio bro ' cast th t they were within a mile of the city limits. R d io P ris, an unreliable source, declared that one Red army had crossed the Danube fro ■ Peat, and w as fightinG in the streets of Buda, the western half of the twin cities. ---◄• ..... The Nazi.military commentators believe the Russians have deliberately slow e d down on the siege of Budapest. Their latest operation a c ainst Slovakia aeans they are trying to pinch off a Nazi salient there. Whatever they mean, they are not helping the Allies o the west front. 1J:6LY NBi.@6;\. 1n~ Britis h Ei hth rmy is c a shing in on the capture of Faenza by the fightiag New Zealanders. Yixe units of British, Poles, Italians,and ~ fro ■ Down Unde~ fanned out fro ■ Faenza, advancing toward Bologna. ./'l ' (..A,-~"6,C41L41 Seventeen Congressmen today visited the Italian /L front. There they saw for themae1ves why that campaign has been so slow. They saw acres of ■ud-kne~••P.-J 4-J rivulets that the rains and melted snow had swollen and to streamsi the ruins of bridges. " . Lucien Lieutenant General~Truscott, commander of the Fifth Army, explained to the ■ that the Germ a ns had aoai of their crack divisions facing the Fifth and ~ Eighth !rmies in Italy~ ~ fighting with all their power to defend the rich valley of the Po F iver and the industrial north of Italy. Repre s ent tive Parnell Thom a s of Ne w Jersey told a r p ort e r th a t wh e n he g ets back he is g oing to dem a nd n investi r, ation into s ix critic a l shorta g es on the J e tern Front. O u r fi g hting men, he s a i , are lacking in he a vy a munition, rubber tires, hospital shi p s, cigarettes an d other essentials . . General acA~thur's headquarters on Leyte report~ that in s a ven aya ,.:;;:;:a •• air~l■~bere A .--<- ~ ba•e destroyed no fewer t h an s ven hundr~d and forty- two Japanese planes. Twenty-three ef \he ■■■ ••••, .,.,,ra,a• on Yindoro a-I, yesterday. /'lur planes encountered 10 ground opposition from the Japanese. Thia nuaber includes enemy planes shot down by the carrier-based aircraft of Adairal Halsey's fleet. 0 ,:-91(1> The J a Anews agency today announced the 1a,lk death of another adairal. And that runs the score up to•• sevent1•nine Jap ad ■ irala killed since lay Seventeenth. SUPEBfQET:__ ~- .. - The B-29s full oi bombs paid return visit today to Na~oya, t ird l a r e t city in Japan, where the great Mitsubi~hi firm has a huge aircraft plant. lot one, but two fleets of B-29s hit the target. General Hansell, co ■ manding officer of t•e Twenty-First Bomber Command, reported that p h otographs ak showed that the great bombers did heavy damage in • • ~&~d-~..._..~-~--- thirteenth. ~•:::as. t.heirAraid on Docember)aiaki■~• ~ ~ .. 1aa 7 out t•e larger portion of two of the biggest assembly buildings, gatt~■o other big ones. And 1 t■enty-t■o aaaller A buildings were destroyed or badly damaged. · · · Ano't ·h er · fleet ·of -B·--29s· earrie-d· 011-t. ·a· ra-id-- · : on Japanese positions in China; attacking docks and •allbouaes at l•i Bankow. Good results there, too, aays the w~r Departmebt. lith the Superforts doing a lot of damage on the waterfront, plus destroying five Jap fighter plane, and damaging seven others. The Su p r em e C ourt of the United States today bac k ed up the United States Army on the Japanese~•••* ~ question. Loyal American citizens of Japanese blood I'- .. should be set free immediately. Thi& applies particularly to those who have prove• their loyalty. '4elk g ~, The Japanese ~ill not be sent ba ,k to the ,>JI,,<. µPAIi., . __, b t those who wish to coast in any hurry, safi /\ u go back to their former b o me1 in C , . lifornia o , re e on or lashington, must be a l lowed to do it. Icke~t.a he d of the War Relocation Authorit7, wbich bas control over this/1t91!C: .. ~e.~ ~ p . i . would do its best to relocate Japanese-taericaa■ ,.. ·ajt/-;;t- in other parts of the country. leva?t~ci..-;, thoae who want t o r turn to the west coast have ever7 .J... I}~ __.___ ~ - ~ + legal and ■oral rigbt,o '1<,,l'J ~ . . . - ' i i i Ska zaa,aaaxala Mee\ ot Me 1ccpea1ieie effi•ielr en•~• ~~~~ ' - t h,e1t ■ pea& •Pier en •••erl,-.aeee~••ace ef-<.hr - ~ov~rnor rren of C the •ar effcrt. Ma·~ eaera~ Pratt, ~ .in 6 co ~ a . i g general at be • ~ stern fa de ense co-a.ad aaid e expectec n y inor incideata. n thing bat oold require ilitar7 in erventi o &. Govern~r anglie of laahington said the eci£io ~or the return of Japaneae to the le&t Coa&t wa& pre a ure. la7or Bowron of Lea lngele~ declared t a t e cocld no guara tee the Japanese protecti ~ n. At l a t we have a dee aration fro ■ our own go,ern ent on the P olish question. Just bow c ·} ~ and definite it ia, the listener will have to judge for hiaself. It doesnlt mention either Britain or Russia: - • AJ l'ldotl men t ion the Curzon Line, the surrender of ~ ~ for■er Polish territory to R~.i°~;f~;:e~c:'rm:t- ,\ territory to Poland. Here are so ■e of the words used b7 Secretary Stettinius: • "The position of the United States Governaent · 11 regards Poland,• said he, •bas been guided steadfastl7 b7 fall understanding and fy ■path7 for of the Polish people.• ~;fl,,oea on ,. the interests to say: •The United States Government stands unequivocally for a ■trong, free and independent Polish state with the t untrammelled right of the Polish people to order their internal exis J enee as they f•• see fit." "The consistent p olicy of the United states , "has that een~tl\ .ues ions relP ing o un · . ies shou be eft in abeyance until the w&r is o ver.• Then he by Secretary Hull la t April, in repeats the state ent ht,,. ,'I.ell wh i ch 11N ■ aid, .. •Thia ,A. doe• not ean that certain quea~iona ■ay not and eboul4 - - aot, in the ■eanti e, be settled by friendly conference ucl aar•• ent. • Jle:-•1t a mutual agreement about the future frontier• ot Poland is reached by the. United Rations directly concerned, this government would have no objection ■, protided it aade an essential contribution to the prosecution or the war against the common ene ■y.• r. Tile coaes a sentence wh _ ich aay be aignificant!· JS • id& s •If result of such agreeaent, the gowernaent I\ . , as a ••d people of Poland decide that it will be in the intereats of the Polish atate to transfer nationality 1roup,, th• . States ■f Government, in cooper tion 'I. United POLUD - J - ,itb other governments, will assist Poland inaofar aa practical in such transfers.• consent One reaction to the Stettinius declaration was a chorus of de m nds in Congress that the President him s elf describe his forei~n policy in the li g ht of h a is oin on in Europe today. Congres ~ men of all shades of opinion joined in this deaand, liberals and conservatives alike. There were tYen ■embers who urge• the• Senate to declare a foreign jolicy, since it is the Senate that will have to ratify any treaty. !U.J~Ql!Ul ~ f f 'l'his i J lo:natic c r i s i s A ~ rebuke, ~ the iirst time in quite a lon b i l e , • ~ ~ Sen tor Hir m Johnson of CAlifornia. Bis voice was noti eably quieter than the stentorian tones tn which he denounced the League of Na t ions t enty fi•• years ago. Some of his col l eagues could scarsely hear him. The C~lifornia statesman is today seventy- eight years old. The last speech he made was a year ago when be op osed the Resolution by Senator Connolly of. Texas in favor of a world organization for peace. Tbt aged trojan called upon his fellow senators to •teat up for American sympathy in behalf of Greece ani other small nations whose people, •• as he put it,, •are being alls■ shot do n by dogs with weapons •e furnish•. Once a ~ ain the C.I.O. Uftieaa ~made A oYertures to the A.F. of L. and once a g ain the A A.f. of L. rejects the olive branch. Phil!!> Murray, President of C.I.O., wrote to Willia• Green of the !.f. of L. su gg esting a meeting of representatives of both sides, for the purpose of drawing up a plan for cooperation to obtain better wages for e ■ployment after the war, broader social • ~ curity, repeal of all aati-labor laws. In Washington, this was interpreted as an effort by llurray to patch up animosities arou1ed during the election. A.F. of L. officials object•• strongly to the wor k of the P.A.C., objected to it 18 d re ·sented the way in which the an organization, an P.A.C. took credit for the reelection of ~resident B defeat Of what were called, ooaevelt, also for the anti-labor Con g ressmen. AF of L. people think The . • 1,AB0L- ,. they were just as respo sib~ ~s he P . . C. for the •ict.ory. President Williaa Green of &dx the A.F. of L. 1aid Murray's letter proposed the saae aort of ,, ,, -r:- pboney funtional unity. - ~hat's the way he put it. - phoney functional unity about which the C.I.O. baa often prated in the past. Fro e a ttle, comes a story of ~ b a n k -.,bbery. I nc► heM"d-. A bandit a l k ed into a s e aboard branch of the Fi st Ha ional Bank at a time w h en more t h an two hundred•• depo s itor• were cro d in the telleri' ca 6 es. au ■■ r'Yran d ishin& a bottle~ told t h e crowd it w a s ful l of nitro- µ- &lycerin«;A If be dic!"'n'et. have bis wicked way, h:J ••i•1 hoe would crash the bottle and blow everyb•dJ ~ -4.-,~ -1-,e._ ~ to a■ i thereena. .i-iirk:Nci --•J.--•••n• ~ wanted four ■illion dollaroi'••■~e~:\l .. le settle• for four thousand.dollsw -eaa thea •••~ ~•••rd• \n 4.aar.~e ... j"oaebody &a grabbed hia and -Oen the truth ~ - - _ A caae out, th:i bottle of nitro-glycerine ~e1i--;;effia1 -US.i•ayonnaise 1 sauce. ;l At Mishawaka, Indiana, a seventeen year old lad wa about to join the Navy. He was very much in love ~ ith seventeen year old Virginia Lewis of South Bea~ Indiana. They decided to spend the entire night waltin1 in the park. They walked and they walked and theJ walked. Snow began to fall, but they kept on walking. The ther ■ o ■ eter fell to twenty-seven degrees, but they kept on walking. But finally they become so tired that th17 lay down in the snow and fell asleep. Hours later, when they woke up, they 4iacovered 1 ~ hat the girl's feet were frozen. The ■ atron in a public rest room saw what was the matter, took her to the hospital, and for a while it was touch-or-go J. •hether the surgeons would 'have to amputate both her feet. Fortunately, they delayed, and the young 1 dy'a e t At any r ate, the story shows x reaeties grew better. romance has not perished from th ~ e earth,