LjLTJL_SUNO_GO__z_MONDAYx_Augus t_10x-12A2 Good Evening, Everybody: Today we are hearing it said with dou^^^ eraphasis that the Battle of the Solomon Islands is not an incident, but is of major importance. The important late news is that our forces have landed in the Tulagi area. Tulagi being the capitol of those wild islands north of New Guinea. And the word is that our forces have made a successful landing. In fact, not one landing, but several, just how many we do not know. What is more, MacArthur’s men seem to have \ LEAD * 2 caup.ht the eneray by surprise. Irhe attack was carefully planned, the Japs taken unawares, and the landings were accomplished according to plan^. -TT Admiral King, ^oramander-Vn-Chief of the \ Fleet, uses these words in his commu "The objective of the current operations is to expel the Japanese from the Tulagi area and to make use of that area for our own purposes." And he adds:- "The \ enemy have been consolidating their oositions, in \ which their purpose has been not only to\deny them to us but to use them as a base of offensive ooerations against our positions which cover the line of communications between Australia and New Zealand." Admiral King tells us tFat.the operations are under the immediate command of Vice- Admiral Gormley and under the general control of Admiral Chester Niraitz, Naval Commander-in-^hief in the Pacific. Certain forces under General MacArthur he adds, are cooperating. That would indicate that the troops landed were not only marines but units of t^e American and Australian armies,, and they are already lortiiying the positions thev have seized. As soon as our iorces landed and the first surprise was over, the Japs counter-attacked immediately. And heavy fighting apparently is still going on. The Commander-in-Chief cannot tell us much, because, as he says, the fighters on the spot are using all available means for communicating with each other. Therefore, they have none to spare for making a detailed running report of what is happening. So far we hear we have lost at least one cruiserf with two cruisers, two destroyers, ana one transport damaged. As for what we have done to the Japanese we are told little -- so far. But a large number of enemy planes have been destroyed, and, surface units have been put out of action as well. Admiral King adds this warning:- "It should be understood that the operation now under way is one of LEAD - 3 the most complicated and difficult in warfare." "Considerable losses, says he, "must be expected as the price to be paid for the hard one of experience, which is essential to the attainment of far reaching results." Those are the last words of the communique signed, "E.J. King." Most of us have heard and read enough since the war began to know that in such an attack our high command did take on a tough job. For the Japs in the Solomons, have all the benefit of planes based on land. And are trying to clear them out with planes based on ships, ships that are highly vulnerable target s. This is the fifth day of the Solomon Island battle, the o± come of which we Know net. Btt we LEAD - 4 have faith in our men. INDIA FOLLOW Lii.AD Irom India come more tales of strikes, N riots and lighting in the streets, with rioters and police killed or wounded. The number of places from which these reports come would seem to indicate that a large portion of that vast sub-continent is seething. In fact the actual scope of the disaffection makes the historic Indian mutiny of long ago look like a pretty local affair. The great mutiny was a rebellion of native soldiers and confined to comparatively few centers in the heart of India. But the disturbances reported today range from Bombay to Calcutta, trom the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal So far in most places the troops were merely ordered to stand by ready to back up the oolice -- if nbcessarv. In Bombay the constabulary had to lire on the mobs ten times. There seems to be little of Gandhi's passive resistance or civil disobedience visible in Hindustan this week. INDIA FOLLOW LF.AD -2 The trouble started with general strikes not only in the industrial parts of Bombay but in New Delhi the capital, and in Calcutta, center of heavy war industries. In Bombay, where the mobs attached street cars and burned buses, eight were Killed and a hundred and siKty-nine wounded, including twenty-seven police. The authorities had to use tear gas in Bombay, Poona, and Ahmedabab -- home of Gandhi. There was a riot of university students at Lucnow, scene of the long and heroic defense and spectacular relief in the Great Indian mutiny. The students tried to parade with banners anddefied the magistrate who ordered them to disband. The police charged with drawnbatons and were thrown back. Then they fired on the students. At New Delhi, official seat of the Viceroy of India, traffic was paralyzed and shops closed. The Moslem districts wanted to go on doing business but crowds of rioting Hindus forced the Mohammedan - ---------- mi i- -- - — -MUM MSM^OLLOV^LtAL - 3 shopkeepers to put up their shutters. An American reporter at New Delhi was almost lynched by a crowd, when he was taken for an Englishman. An Indian newspaper friend came to the rescue and had difficulty explaining to the mob that the chap was an American. The first stories from Calcutta reported that the trouble was less acute there. But a later dispatch brings word that the number of strikers and factories closed is growing. 1 --- 0--- The Government of India today out India Congress Party,. ^^T^should remember1 •trtr-at tne term "India Congress" does not mean Congress as we know it -- but a political/party. Not only the All India organization but all the pronincial congress party branches have been declared illegal. The Government of Mysore has issuep a similar order -- in a principality. More than two hundred leaders of the Congress n-i Party are under arrest, including Gandhi. ^ ” . . . , « i t . J U ^ . . . . . - - - - - INDIA.iOLLOW^LAD - 4 Our own Lieutenant-General Stillwell, Commander of the United States forces in southeast Asia, arrived at New Delhi today. He was accompanied by l^achlan Currie, special representative of President Roosevelt. RUSSIA \ n In I he Caucasus, the Nazis are forging ahead. . 1 s The spearhead of the panzer columns is coming closer and closer to the Maikop oil fields on two sectors. The Red army is retreating, fighting all the way but still retreating^with its back to the Caucasus mountains. However, on one Russian sector the Soviet armies have won at least a temporary success. The Nazis themselves* admit that the Reds have fought their way back across the Don River andyestablished bridgeheads on fefea west bank A A in the Voronezh area, that vital region halfway between Moscow and Stalingrad. But the Nazi high command also claims that its motorized divisions pushing east through the Caucasus have ^ caotured Piatigorsk, a hundred and twenty miles to the southeast of Armavir. If that is true, it puts the German van uard almost within sight of the Caucasus Mountains and within striking distance of the Caspian Sea. RUSSIA - 2 have An unofficial story reports that Rumanian infantry fir* 1 on the Sea of Azov, eifhty mixes to the southwest of Rostov. In spite of all this, the Russians are able to maintain a conviction that somehow and somewhere their enemy will be stooped and thrown back. At the same time there are loud questions of where and when is the second front and complaints that Russia is carrying on alone. — A Of course this is barked up by Nazi propaganda broadcasts and leaflets dropped by planes over Russian cities. The American Expeditionary Force in Britain grows apace. Another heavy contingent was disembarxed ; today at a British port. V«e gather there is quite a sizeable army now under the command of Major General Mark W. Clark, / Commander of Uncle Sam’s ground forces over there. / And General Clark, made the statement today that the Yanks are not there to sit down, on the defensive. He used these words, "We think the men are pretty good now. Some of them may be a little soft, but they won’t be so for long.” He believes they are better trained than most of the units of the A.E.F. in the first Viforld War. And they are going to be put through more toughening courses, including long marches with field packs,intensive training in amphibious warfare, and in cooperation between air and ground plus realistic battle drills with live artillery, and so forth. i Also, Major General Carl Spaatz, U.S. Commander ; oi‘ Air forces in Europe, declared officially that his bobbers *ould soon join the Royal Air Force in the aerial bombardment of Germany. His words were, "within the immediate future operations will commence in accordance with plans that have been in. the making between the R.A.F. and the American Air Force. And he added:- "Ife are proceeding ahead of actual schedule. Our enemy at the appointed time will feel the might of a thoroughly coordinated British and American air attack." AIR BAITS There is a heavy pall of smoke over the town of Osnabruck in western Germany today. 14-frg jthe <1 a u g o'? Vi ft n o-e of a visit from the Royal Air Force, the A fortieth since the war began^TI also the first important raid in two weeks, because bad weather has hindered the B.A.F. Osnabruck is one of the biggest places in Westphalia, and highly important to the Nazi war effort not only because of the railroad workshops there, but also because it is a center of copper and aluminum refining. The smoke is visible even from Holland. Some time ano, the British and Canadians realized the necessity of training young men of high school ai e who uhily before long be A fighting this war. The British organized the Air fKxiHiii Training Corps of Great Britain,*' the Candians formed the Air Cadet League of Canada, to give (Zs-f pre-flight training. ^ We followed suit seven months ago with the Air Training Corps of America, The A.T.C.A., as it is called, announced today that it has made an agreement with the Air Cadet League of Canada* Vfeeed Fitts s tudents \ of the Air Training Corps of America will go to Canada, partly as a gesture of good-will but more important still to see for themselves how the Canadians are doing the job. In England, Che Air Training Corps has already sent seventy thousand of its graduates to the Royal Air Force and two hundred thousand are in pre-flight 2 A2 training. Thousands are in the Air Cadet League of Canada. By Nineteen Forty-Four, the A.T.C.A. will have two million young .Americans in training for the air forces of Uncle Sam. SABOTiLURb Now that those ei^ht Nazi saboteurs are out oi the way, the Department of Justice has fourteen more to deal with. Persons accused of having helped the original eight. Attorney General Biddle will ask the grand jury to indict the fourteen alleged confederates for treason and knowledge of treason. For treason they can be put to death if they are found guilty. Those who are convicted of guilty . knowledge, which the lawyers call "misprision of treason" are liable to seven years and fines. As might be expected, the Nazis do not appreciate the extreme care and fastidiousness of the proceedings with regard to the original eight saboteurs. The Berlin radio said today that our military authorities had not succeeded in proving the guilt of the accused and went on to declare that we have now forfeited the right to protest against the condemnation of saboteurs in territory occupied by the German* Army TBIBUNE It loo/s as though there v/ould be no end to the euci between Congressman Holland of Pennsylvania and the McCormick-Pat terson newspaper family. You will recall that some days ago Holland, on the floor of the House, threw charges of moral sabotage against Captain Joseph Med ill Patterson, publisher of the NEW YOFK DAILY NEWS, his sister Eleanor Patterson, publisher of the WASHINGTON TIMES-HEBALD, and his cousin, Colonel McCormick, publisher of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS retorted with a scorching editorial last Monday, headed with the words - "Ycu Are A Liar, Congressman Holland.” Holland took the floor of the House again today, and repeated his attack. He called those three papers members of the vermin press. He declared that their net effect was to isxrgE preach defeatism among our civilians, mutiny among our soldiers, an(^ 0 spread Ml | TRIBUNE - 2 dismay amon^ our allies and to create joy in the hearts of our enemies. Senator Brooks of Illinois took up the cudgels for the McCormick-Petterson newspapers. He denounced the government for planning an investigation of a story published in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE last June. That story purported to describe the disposition and composition of the Japanese naval forces in the Battle of Midway. According to the Navy, that was a betrayal of secret Brooks declared that in this, the naval information. A government was ending itself to a malicious purge and smear campaign. efti-e-Afl 0 TRIG UUJL,.ra^ 1 i m ^ n t s -tr-fea g-h 1 u yn)—S~m—■» ■ n d 11 h i' C hft p*0 — w - h bo a o ~t-h-w- teTrt~tro^ d"efe'at~ h-i-m-r- BASFBALL The .>1*- game of baseball sometimes degenerates into what the fans call bean ball. For the benefit of the ladies, it should be explained that a bean ball is one thrown by the pitcher d-e 1 iboratoly , net over the plate but at the head of the batter or some A othe-r portion of his anatomy. Bean-balling in the past has resulted in some sad accidents and the ruin of more than one fine player, 4x1 t There was a bean-ball battle at Boston last Saturday uiun / nae between the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Lodgers. Whenever' either pitcher came to bat, his rival would improve the shining hour by trying to make dents in his person. In one inning, Pitcher Manuel K Salvo of the Braves socked his rival in the ribs with a l pitch, whereupon Pitcher Ifitlow Wyatt of the Dodgers threw his bat at Salvo. All in all, it was a riotous affair. Twice this duel caused the complete teams of BASEBALL - 2 both sides to come charging out of their dugouts, and there were almost pitched battles on the field. V Today President Ford Frick of the National League took action to insure that there should be no more beaning, in his league at least. He fined both pitchers, t slaoning an extra penalty on V; it low Wyatt of the Dodgers A for throwing his bat at Salvo. After that, Frick, who is an ex-baseball reporter, telegraphed all eight managers in the National League —inf - rm^4-thoai that in future he would hold them accountable for every throwing of a bean ball. The next time i tho mana<-e-r—e4‘ -t-ke ^ u-vll?rp». oitcher throws a beanball will be fined A * two hundred dollars a o a a ti q n1. cA vwO