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n the
northern end of
Leyte the men
of the
T
enty
-
f
ourth
D
ivi
si
n
a
v
fou ht
th ir way through
a
tro
ic 1
n
le to
eize
Mt. Badian, a two thousand
fo
o
t
hill
••i••
overlooking th Ormoc plate
a
u where
the Japanese are digging in
for
a
last
stand.
A
large Japanese force, some four divisions,
were
struggling to hold back the Americans advancing
from the South, when another
·
column marched
down
from
the North, and took the mountain which commands
Ormoc.
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General Kru
ge
r's artillery
and plan£
I
have created large fires
hi
ch
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Bu
MacArthur reports
the Japane6e have rushed a new Army of thirty-five
a ■ t
northern end of
force
ta do not have
sufficient
control of the
surrounding
waters
to prevent these reinforcements.
~
In order to do this, G~neral
Yamashita
is
withdrawing
t
soldiers from the surrounding islands, Cebu, Mindanao,
and even Luzon,
weakening
his positions there in order
to retain his hold on Ormoc. The consolation is that
those new thirty-five
' ~
Mikado~merely replace th
·
irty-five thousand
whe11,,.1■■
~~
killed,
wounded or captured4'
.....,.~
~ . (treating
~
n
The Japanese
are
e~identl~skz■ ataai"
the battle of
4 ~
thousand/\watihe
► ·l#e1•1
•f=•II•
Leyte as of the greate t imp~rtance: ~ a r e throwing
their entire
I•
Thirty-Fifth Army into the fight.
This
m e a n ~ : y
realize
if
they
lose Leyte
~
--:t'fata&
t.1swoi
♦f
•:c
the
Philippines.
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Th
J
p
a
ns
h
a
v
un
th i
in
1 11-out
v nee on
laala Kw
e
ilin.
0
ninety
il
e
to
the
o the
s
t
Ja
n
column
are
fi
htin
tow
rds
Liucho , fr
m
thr
e
i
rection •
n
t
Liuchow,
are the
last
o
·
o
ur
ir bases
in Kw
-
ng
s
i .
.
Al
"
of which serves to remind us how
many
long
hard battles our fighting men have
ahead
o
them.
The headquarters of Chiang .Kai-Shek today
repeated
the
charge th
a
t
the Japanese are using
poison
gas.
To offset
the ne s
about
Liucbow,
we
hear
that Chines
troops•• in
ortihern Burma
took
the
Japanese by surprise, crossed the Irrawady in rubber
bo
·
ts drop
ed
from plane, and
established
a
beachhead
.,.,.,.,
halfw
y
bet
,
·een the
two main
Japanese
bases in northern
Burma, on the Irrawady.
JAPAN
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Th
people of
Japan
are
offended --
surprised
and offended.
It
seems that the
Soviet
Chie
of
tate,
nock
them
h
n
h
de
.
cribed the
Mikado's peo
le to
the
orld
as
an ag
ressor nation.
And
today the Tokio
ra io brolidcast
a
mild threat. Relations between
Russ a
and
Japan today
are
normal, it said, and then added:
but
they
might ch:_:a:n:g:e:·~-
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As
a
matter of fact, the neutrality pact
between Tokyo and Moscow will expire some five
months
from
now.
Thie, by the
way, was
not a government broadcas
It
was the official Japanese
news
agency that conveyed
the
information.
So
far the leaders of the
Mikado's
government haven't said a word about Pr~mier Stalin's
•iaa ■ •is
birthday-of-Bolshevism remarks.
~
linston Churchill told
t;ww,
people
d.f=Sll:n::wt:~
A
today th
a
t
'
it ~s high time he and President Roosevelt
and Stalin ha
d
another
triple conference.
Diplomats
in London
believe
Mr.Roosevelt will soon go abroad
for that meeting.
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Churchill spoke at a luncheon given by the
..
..
Lord
Mayor
of London,in tile city's famous Mansion
House.
Be
was
full of praise for his fellow c•iefs
-i-e
of State;~rejoiced over the re-election of President
~
.I.
Rooaevelt,and~eulogized Stalin
for.A.ta•
wise and
witty
"
.
A
r - t - ~
ppeech;e••
a•
exp 1as1i , ..
"'Monday.
The Prime Minister's address was principally
about the war.
But he also paid a tribute to the
Republicans over hare, saying: "Let us express our
gratitude to both great
·
parties for the manner in
which the interests of alliance and tile prosecution
of thew r have been held high above the dust of
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rtisanship,"
an
he continued, "America has
given
an
exa ■ ple
to the world of how De ocratic
in tituti ns can
be
worked
•ith
t e utmost
vigor
and freedom without injury to the peraanent interest
of State."
He also said:
"We
know
that we in Britain
have in the Republican Party vast nuabers of friends
and well-wishers."
And he declared: "I am sure everybod.
will be moved by the sportsmanshiplike manner in
which Governor Dewey
1
in· the moment of his defeat~
offered his congratulations to his opponent and pledged
his party to
work
wholeheartedly for the world cause."
Churchill then explained why the Allied
armies
on the Western Front were stopped short just inside
the German
frontier.
A
pause in the Allied advance
was
inevitable, said he, and during the last few
months the bringing up of supplies and reinforcements
and the improvement of har ors have been the
main
caoRC
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occupati
n
of
the
Supreme Allied
Command.
Spe
~Al
ing about
It
a
ly,
he
duclaTA~
the
.
/'-
Allies there
have
surmounted
the terrible
barrier of'
t;IJ--
th
e
A
pennine an
the Gothic Line,
andAtbia
has
carried us into the Valley of the Po.
Europe
the
f
three
gre
~
powers to
c~~own
s i s t a n c e ~ t
ex✓
tile
desperate
WESTERN
.
FRONT
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On the Western Front) the heavy
guns
of
8 • • ~ •
~--t-e"~
Patton's Third Arm~ engaged in the heaviest
boabardaent
I\
of the German lines since the break-through at St. Lo.
This
Ac..
tdN
prelude to the advance of seven of his
divisions along an eighty-seven
mile
front.
Patton
_.,••••k
1:.
~~7P~s~eaen
t
on
the great fortress
of Metz, the fortress that never yet has been
taken
by assault.
In spite of heavy early
snows
our troops
AA-ti
':(o,,
have
•J•
captured nine more
towns,
making a total
of
thirty in two days; and they have advanced to a••
depth of six miles-~ crosaing the Moselle at two
points, north of Metz.
·
Hodges' First Army also
s ■■ k
lashed out today,
fighting through the snow,
to
take back ground they had
lost.
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The Eighth An- Force, which general
l
y has
been engaged in strategic bombing, today turned to
tactical work, raiding Nazi defense po
s
itions along
the Moselle.
Meanw~ile,
the R.A.F. pounded the Ruhr --
Lancasters escorted by :spitfires and Hurricanes.
Two bombers
were
lost, and none
of
the escorts. The
pilots reported that they
flew
through
air so
cold
their eyelashes froze.-
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The British tell
of
a Polish infantry division
taking a strategic point vital to the control
of
the
bridges over the canals and tributaries
of
the R
i
ve
~
Maas.
The German official communique denies this, and
says the Nazis are stil
l
there. The British-Polish
account tells how the Germans were caught napping when
Polish troops, and tan
k
s suddenly appeared among them.
The Poles had
m
a
rch d five hours in the dead of the
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night, part
of
the time through
marshes.
They
were
wet to the waist when they finally broke through the
German
defense
lines.
For eleven days Montgomery's
Army
has been
trying to capture this strategic point.
The Poles tell bow the Nazis came rushing
out with their hands up; so many prisoners it
wae
difficult to handle them.
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U-B01\TS
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The
1
azis today announced that they bad given
up building 0-boats, and instead
are turning
their
production resources to the manufacture of tanks and
artillery.
That
may
be a false lead.
Maybe
they are
concentrating on their big new robots, the type we
hear they int~nd to launch from planes
and
submarines.
olks
arth~uake
leewher/
agnosis
w
s
that th
probaby'
discharge
of depth
sea.
Nazi propaganda was busy today publicizing
the V-2 long distance robot bomb, the latest weapon
devised for a fresh attack on Britain.
Berlin
aade
the claim that a lot of
V-2's
ha
hurled
against
London last night. The Britis
are saying
nothing.
The principal information the Nazis
out is that the V-2 has a much greater range than the
V-1.
And they add that it's no use trying to
guess
where the launching sites are, and that they have
invented an
improved mechanism
for aiming and directing
these high flyin
g
•iss1les.
A British broadcast
claimed
to
have information
that the V-2 is not launched
ff ■
from the ground. A
Swedish paper reported that it
was a
robot bomb rele
a
sed
from a plane and so dangerous
that
the Nazis were using
only o
l
d pl
a
nes in the operation.
Tod Y the Second Army of t
h
e Ukr
a
ine has been
battling the Nazis in the southeastern suburbs
of
I••
Budapest.
The Germans say that other Soviet divisions
are bein
g
held up on the
west bank
of
the Danube, forty
three miles south
of
the Hungarian capital.
And,
the
N •z
i
High
Co'mmand
tel
ls us that
another Red
Army
has crossed the Danube and
established
a second bridgehead in
Jugoslavia.
Also, one Russian
force
is
advancing northeast-of Budapest - threatening
to split the German
armies.
More news from
the
Arctic:-
A Swedish
.
newspaper
says the
Germans
have abandoned Hammerfest,
Norway,
northernmost city in Europe.
Withdrawing
without a
fight before a column of Russian troops advancing across
the top of Norway - via Lapland.
ELECTION
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No, there is no change
i ■
of any consequence
in the election figures. The latest returns
give the
President an electoral vote of four hundred
and
thirteen, and Governor
Dewey
one
hun red and eighteen,
In case it's any consolation
to
the Republican,
Ur.
Roosevelt wins this time
with
the smallest
plurality of any President since lineteen Sixteen,
.
And the voters have ,1so piled up a record.
fifty mil ion -- a staggering·vote.
11illioo, eigtl''i.
-i1aml1ea
ana fif\eea .-otea had
'Deea.
hllidat.ed-:-A1ul
-W.ri-._.
only
~dei11,._
percent of the
--
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. .
total This includes the ballots for Soc1al1st
Norman
1\
.
Thomas; Socialist Labor Edward Teichert, and
Prohibitionist Claude
A. Watson.
Or had you forgotten
they
ere
running?
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had
0
f
the tot a 1,
Mr.
twenty~million,
(l')w___
Roosevelt
by
~ ' c l o c k
~ { / ' x f L
n ~ n e d
and
eeveatrasjx
thousan
1
,
srsan
hun red and
total vote,
53.3
oercent, is some three million more
than Mr. Dewey's
46.7
percent.
This evening the lew York Governor still is
lagging in his home state, Michigan, which Wendell
lillkie carried in Nineteen-fort,. That, due to the
terrific CIO pro-Roosevelt vote in Detroit and the
other war plant centers.
Aside from that tmlew York
Governor has twelve states. So he made a considerablJ
stronger race than Mr. lillkie.
The
De ■ ocrats
captured four Governorships
fro ■ ·
the Republicans, in Massachusetts, Ohio, Washington
and in Idaho; and at
l•••*
latest reports they are
leading in Missouri.
On the other hand, the Republicans won two
away from theDemocrats in Indiana and North Dakota.
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iengreeemen •••
DORSIY
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~ _ . _ T h e r e will be
no
public trial
of
t
he.,,.
.f-
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0
,....,._ ~a
cal
'lt ,{
4rrfAtl
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trn ■pster=
Tommy
Dorseys-,c
~
~a':;[;ome
Jon Ball left
with
the tip of bis
A
.
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~b
1
·
h
Th ~ D
·
t · t
nose 1n as 1ng•-;.._no pu
1c
sow.
e ~ :
1s r1c
Attorney .__
reco■aen~
t h a t ~
a
not~
raised
an~~~~-
The Dietrict Attorney ~'
.....
~
••• exceedingly curious about who cut
off
the
end
ot
Jon
not
Ball's nose,
but bis
assistant
--~
bold up in court,~hree
of
the
says
the
case
will
key witnesses
are out
of
the state, and refuse to come
b act,&o1 a
I
trial
would
be just
a waste
of
tax payers money.
It ie consoling to
know
that somebody is anxious about
the tax payers aoney.
BABY
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A
story fro
Se
a
ttle toni
g
ht has two
ele
m
ents intere t
i
n
g
to•~ everybo
d
y, a mystery and
a baby.
The cops have not yet been ab le to est ab 1 i sh
the identity of blue-eyed little •Jackie• parked in
a Seattle hotel yesterday.
As he is described he is
aaa1ingly
like a little boy of the same age kidnapped
from bis home in Dayton, Ohio, last October,
l/llfA~1ta/•~t'
. . , named
l ■ la
Ronald Thompson, twenty-one months old.
The little ~~abandoned in
a
Seattle hotel
has a
diraple in his left cheek. So h a d ~ Ronald
Thompson.
However Ronald had brown eyes and the
little boy left at the Seattle hotel is blue-eyed.
A young
woman
brought him in, said she was his Aunt,
left him on the b
e
d ·n
ro
o
m without
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..,.,..,._,. C41M.-
et
There will
be
no mor
e
par·des
in birth1ay
garb
in
British Colum ia.
Th's is the
1P.cis·on
of the
Doukhobors, themselves, who used to
astonish
and shock
the neighbors,
e
v~n
if
some of
them
were
entertained.
Twenty-four Elders
of
the sect
have
been deliberating
forty days and nights. Th ir nudi m, they explain, was
a political weapon that the
y
now fin1 no longer
effective.
In future they ~ill take
otf
their clothes
only during their religiou~ ceremonies, which
will
be
in private.
And now Hugh will you "take off" and say a
few final words.