1~I~---ifiiM8AB~~-EB1~~x~-r~RBY~Rr_~~-124~ ---------- GOOD ETI:NING EVERYBODY: The latest is--still another island captured. Another one of the bits of lan that form , he / Kwajalein Atoll has been siezed by Ai.merican troops. This was announced in totigh~•~ ate bulletin from Admiral Nimitz. ~ The island is Ebeye, which - is just north of Kwajalein Island. The Americans landed without opposition, then ran to some fighting and proceeded to take the place. The fall of Ebeye resulted in immediate i capture of two islets--lying between Ebeye and Iwajalein. All of which means that our troops are movmng up along the eastern fringe of the atoll--the Seventh Infantry doing the job. On Kwajalein Island itself, only one des- perately resisting party of Jape remains to be sub- dued. AR I.) A L LS _ ............ - . .......... They are descrioed a s half-cra J e d , and a similar de cription applies to all the Japanese garrisons that have already been destroyed. They were driven half mad by tbe incessant bombardments burled by war . ships, bombing . lanes, and land based artillery. " • Th destr cti o1 i describe f nt ti c - big co - tal uns t iated crazily, buil ings pulverii d, r o ve s of m trees ri 1ed to shreds, standing like g rote t ue of h - voc. "The J PS s usu 1,n sys toni t's United Pre ss >, tch, •were tough. S hock ed a nd dazed as they ·· were ' crawled through the night an ot into pill b oxe s the A me ric a n forces - where they h ad to be rooted out. Others tried to 1 get through the encirc l me~t, uldn't make it - - - - • - r hardened marines a ~ e quoted ae s ay ing that they were disgusted ~ with the task of destroying Japa wh~"'21'lurx_ on th.e borderline of ins . nity. And that's a vivid hint of th stu pe ndous viol e nce of t~e bombardment. Tody United Sta,tes Com nder, Admi r 1 Turner, atat s ea king of the v i rtual ca pt ure of Kwajalein, is u o , ted as s · y ing : "Our 1••• . in are im p ortant, AR AL ... ...,_--~-------- ~ n th y v 't co t u mu ·h a yet. aybe we ha too m&n y non too m ny his for this job. But," headed, "I r fer to do thins that way. It meant m ny lives ~aved for us, nd it · should be a discoura ement to the Japanese everywhere - to know that Yhen w hit, w really hit hard and for keeps." tGo which we can only echo that the capture of l Iwajalein AtoI 100 1 like an unPxpectedly brilliant success. FOLLOW AR HALLS ________ _...._ ... ___ ..._ _______ _ Today t egret la oon of Iwajalein, the largest atoll lagoon int e world, was a harbor for A erican ershi . a and transports. These streamed , into what had been a major naval station for the ~ Japan se fleet. news tonight tells us that Ad•iral Nimitz has issued his first proclamation as military governor. Putting the final seal of formality on the conquest of IwajaleinJhe. proclaims the abolition of the Mikado's powers, phrasing it in these words:- •exercise of Emperor Hirohito's powers is suspended• • . . - - l\ ~ _+ '-+- ~ Q~LI .,. I ~ ~ IA ' ~~:J • NEW G U IN E A ----------- Anoth e r bi g Allied airs ■■■ victory in the Hew Guinea t he ater of war. This time eighty Japanese pl a nes weTe destroyed. That's a lot, but it doesn't aean any great •••i••ot Amer~;';_ctoriea i n ~ a:tpt Only ei g ht enemy planes wer e shot down, while -t;6_~ s ■■■SJ~ seventy-two were caught on the ground, and 1■ashed before they could get tnto the a i r . ~ waa the most crushing blow de~lt to Japanese air power since November last•••• year when eighty-eight Jap ~ - - aircraft were destroyed.~Oa ,.._ ga•'f n the Cl Southwest Pacific, 1 ~tri~ing Allied suc~eas was ~ on Bougainville -- when our/\troops drove clear the island. Tonight's dispatch stat e s:- Our patrol• crossed Bougainville on point within five miles ledne1day, and reached a ~ of Numa-Numa on the eecl wost "- " coast. Numa-numal tbat •• another ooe fa• J ca. ,ooa - of aid s:eut exotic name a. BLOCKADE RUNNERS -------- Three more Germ a n blockade runners have been sent to the bottom - this w&s announced by the Navy today. They weP-e ig cargo vessels that bd- stocked up with valuab l e war mate ials from ·the Far East - th.-J-~ Japs trying to send fRI.PPl:::t'n to their Nazi pals. The three ships were crammed with thousands of tons of rubber, tin, fats and strate g ic metals, and the7 started out to run the blockade to Germany. The Q course they took was across the Pacific and around Cape Horn - and they got that far, navigating safely through the vast areas of the Southern Pacific. But at Cape Horn; American shi p s and patrol planes were on guard, and the blockade runners were spotted. In e u ch case, the German crews tried to ~~ scuttle their ships~ but th~/\were shattered by American gunfire. Why the gunfire? Why not just let them be scuttled a n d s - in J: ? BLOCK A DE RUNN F S - 2 ----- - --------- ell, there was a p ur r ose. The story today tells how hundreds of tons of rubber were salvaged by the Americana. , _ ihip split open by.X.~fire, the rubber drifted off. tii,; w~ certainly can use it, those hundreds of tons of rubber which the Jap3, having seized the rubber-producing areas of the East, then proceeded to send our way. AIR WAR -------- A tremendous Americ4n air fl~et struck a de- vastating blo against a Number ~ne objective Frankfurt, the gre a t German induetr~al and rail center. _______ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -...J There were el•ven hundred heavy bombers and fighters in the air-mada-and they ran into the heavi- est kind of opp ~ sition. German fighter planes flocke to tbe attack, but did not do so well. But the flak was, in the words of one veteran pilot-------- " AIR WA · 2 ---- . "the worst I h v e e r seen." First Lieutenant Richard 1' olf of Still wa ter, Oklahoma, describes the anti-aircraft fire in these words: "Flak would burst alon £ si d e us an the bl a ck bursts would be carried by the high wind right alon g with us, min g ling with new bursts - until there w s a solid carpe t of the stuff.• The anti-aircraft fire, in fact, was so intense that the eneay, himself, was burned by it. Returning A ■ ericana tell how German fighter planes were hit by their own anti-aircraft barra g e, and at least one was shot down by the ground gunners. T h ~ i n f l i c t e ; Was devastating, with Sergeant Daniel Greene, of McAlpin, Florida, giving the following vivid description: •I got a look at the target through a c l ~ a n d our incendiaries were "' ,. all over the l ace•- ad- f . i r e ~ n d do w n the I /\ . ent · ire s e cti o n. The who le target area," s ya h e, "looked like Broadway on New Year!s Eve.• ITALY ____ .... The battle for Rome has developed into the bitterest conflict~f the whole The Germ n to drive th begun haveA■ z ■ k■ a/\th eir Fifth Army already launched four counter-off ens iv o the sea, and have owerful attacks. The beachhead that we hold extends for fourtee miles along the shore, and •r•aches i ■ ali■ in and for eight miles. In other words, from the sea to the railway lin that extends from Ca■po Leone to Cistern& and they're calling this latter place •the town of the thousand pi 1 boxes.• The beachhead is flat land - the compar y level extant of the ancient Latin plain. by hills, and the Germans hold t e hi h ground - which ives them that much advantag Four times the.enemy came n violent force. Each time there was a thunderin arti lery barr a' e - IT!~! - 2 and heavy air attack. In recent d ays, the German air arm bad been little in evidence, but now enemy bomb- ing and strafing planes appeared in force to support the counter-attacks. These consisted of lunging drives by tanks and infantry-~nd tbe turmoil of desperate battle was on. The Nazis claim to have broken through and encircled segments of British and Americans. But today's official communioue from the fighting front declares that all four counter-attacki have been beat back with be4vy losses. And there is violent action to the •outh-in that much fought over area of Cassino. A ■ erican • troops were fighting in the J town of Cassino today battling their way through the streets. T~ey were driv~n . ut, but surged back in again-the initiative changing hands twice. The street fighting is accompanied by a terrifying artillery fire. German guns are shelling our troops in the northern end of ITALY - 4 ___ .._ __ __. tne to · n, hile Americ a n cannon are hurling tons of hi h explosives into the azi positions at the southern end of Cassino. Last night is de~cribed by American troops the as a nightmare of cannonading, with Germane hurling A shells so big that they, in the words of American soldie~s, "sang like harmonicas." But in spite ot the inferno, the Americans are hanging on and puahing forward. LEAD RUSSI.A -------~...,....,------ The late ne r s from Russia t onight jaala tells of a dramatic scene -- a sudden silence. For five days the big guns of the B~d Army had been thundering incessantly. Then all was quiet. And ~•o parties of Russian s - oldiers rushed toward each with \d otberAi• shouts of triumph•--/"ea_niog a joining of , , I\. . /\ forces w , hich completed a ring around one hund . red thousand Germans trapped in a · pocket along the middle Dnieper. As things look ... in the Moscow dispatches, the Mazia are tangled in another great disaster in Russia -- ten divisions encircled and facing annihilation. .BUS~IA --- Berlin \ells 0£ hea¥y Rueeiaa Peiafopoeaaat1 U~•••> : ' ,awas aad villarea as the fled fu1ces cloee iB ea••• t,pap .. To the north, Soviet troops are approaching *•• Narva, the ancient Estonian cit - "storming at the gates of Narva,r sys he Moscow dispatch. nhile - from neutral sources, we hear that the Germana are maki moves to evacuate Estonia altogether. RJN . S ----- e r to · e ne · n r r n · s for to ers f the Ar · n the avy. In Con ress tod y, to bills w ere introduce to cre at e tone suer rans. Those of - "General•of-the-Armiesfl and flAdmiral•of-the- Navy." The reason for this is the fact that our commanders are sometimes outr nked · by Allied high officer• ~--~- opoosite them. For example, the British Army A~-~ ~ "Field Yarshal.Jhe British fleet -"Admiral of the Navy.• Both of which titles have been outran ing the highest of ' ~ our own - and that's a disadvantage ,rthe big military discussions. The b i lls introduced tod y m keno mention of wh t officers are likely to-be honored with the super ran· . s. But we he r that the itle, "General of the ~,, Ar m/(' will be ranted to General Marshall, Chief of Staff and to General ll ·a Comm n n er of the Arm1 Air Forces. - - ~ ~ - ~ - - - ~ - - · ~ A _ rno ld. RANS - 2 ------ On the side of sea power, Fleet Commander King and Presidential Chief of Staff Leahy will becoae Admiral•- of~the-Navy - we are told. LODG Today one of the most prominent United States Senators r e s i g n e ~ ~ , i * t;'.:~,;u ~~ ~~~. L ~ I \ ~% Massachusetts. e, sub ■ itted his resignation so A . • nat he may enter active military service. Henry Cabot Lodge has been a reserve officer a long tiae, and in 1942 he was on active duty in Horth Africa - ~ Major with the American forces fighting in the Libyan desert. Who will succeed this important member of the upper house? A repo:1:from Boston says Governor Sal- tonstall. ,he t}t;t'- ~ a t the Governor will resign I\ • l~-~~ and be succe&ded by Lieutenant Governor Cahill, who will then appoint Saltonstall as Senator to succeed Lodge. All concerned are Republicans, which will leave unchanged the Democratic-Repuslican line-up in the Senate. FOLLOI LODGE ----...------- Another rumor is that Gov e rnor Saltonstall aay appoint Sinclair leeks, the Treasurer of the Republican National Committee. PUPS --- At a tran port airbase in • iami, they were concerned tod a y about the . uestion of Til l ie's pups. These arrived ten th usand feet up in the sky . so ■ewhere along the airline transport route fro ■ India to the United States. They are a fine lookin& litterjand 1 they are aristocrats - at least in pa~t. But are Tillie'• pups also part headhunter? Tillie herself is'of the noblellineage. She was bred by a maharajah of India fro ■ the purest strain ot the dog nobility of Hindustan. Then, when Tillie w ~ s a pup, the ·Maharajah gave her to General McDowell of the British Army. W later on, General ~ McDowel~g••~ her to Kajor John H. Grindley of the United States Army Medical Corps. Major Grindley took Tillie with him wherever he went, and it happened that his military travels led him•• among the fierce tribes of n o rthern ~ 4 Bu m • ~ " 8 I\ q uartered in a I!Yl§ - 2 ~:tZ.:, ' - ~ villa e of the Nagas, a he dhunt in trib~,{''tx o o n ~ ~~~ atftA-~ nJDi/\savage pac k s o f wild do s. Aad Lhi,t l eads to the belief that half of the ancestry of Tillie's pups is traced to the ild dogs of· the Naga headhunters. All of wkieh--aakee ~ ffiff~reaee \e the aiP ■ ea lri, 1 1 . t w , M ~ ~ ~ e adopted by pilots ( k . . , ( ~ ~ ~ , I and bomber crews.- ~ w,ill they turn out to have the - Maharajah~ aristocracy of Tillie, or will tbuy k••• I\ the temperament of the headhunters? It wa s d i s closed in W a shington today that President Roos e velt has had an o p eration - surgery in a hos p it a l. He went under the knife earlier in the week. IR!=-hO an oper a tion on his he a d - a nd that may sound alarming. But it was only - a wen, one of those bumps th a t don't me a n any t hing much but can be a nuiaan At his news conference today, the President reve a led that on the back of his he d he had a wen. Be had it for twenty years.- ~ - tu l,111-•• ••~ when he was known as Presi d ent Wilson's Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He kept the buap ye a r after year and g ot along w ith it q uite wellf ~ •ut hlR!~recently it started to grow a bit. So he went to the Naval Hos _ ital at Bethesda, ij ary l and, an d the doctors g ot busy'with k nives. The President was i n th e ho s p it a l for about half an hour, and when he e me r g e d he h a a sm al l b n d a g e t the base of the s ul l . Th t s t h e c u s of in ~ u ir ies, a n ~ tod a y ROOS V LT - 2 ------4---- "', 'f-,, Pre s i d en t Ro o s e v e 1 t c a me u n i th t he s e c re t - tellin o f the operation on th e residenti a l wen.- ' 1 CL A P ~ R ~ President Roosevelt/'.expre . ssed his sorrow t-m!ey at the death of the famous lashington columnist- Ray- mond Clipper - who was killed i ~ l a n e acci d ent during the invasion of the Marshall Islands. The President ~ ~, · said L~at a reat newspaper man lost his life in the I\ line of duty.n And today newspspers printed an article tax*~• that Clapper wrote as he as on his way to the mission from which he did not return. Be was aboard an air- craft carrier, and was tellin · of the airmen who were --- about to fly, into battle just as he was about to fly. A MIi lle wrote of hat he called •the men who will not come back•. ane sentence reads~ •you live only minute by minute through tne routine that carries you smoothly aa if drifting down a r iver - toward the day of battle•. Minute by minute! Ray■ zuj Clapper was writing \ ~ really about himself, telling ofl.\•men who will not come back•.