There is consi erable to-do in about the seven Russian se men who quit · one ;,f - , ~ A 9--i--c'\.at _, ~-- Stalins marchant ships. ,-a::Sgxi" c o n s u l a ~ ~ } , , in Seattle wanted them turned over to the tender mercies of the Soviet Onion, wbic means the N. [. V. D., the Russian version of the Gestape. Two of those Russian seamen said tk ■J that if they were turned over ~o authoriti-es they never would/return to Holy Mother alive. They declared that the p nishme t · s practiced by the Russian B. I. V. D. included stuf ing men alive into fire At any rate, Sam's immigration authorities refused to turn those mariners over to the Soviet and two of them are anxious to beco ■ e American citizens. They say they like A~erica and would like to fight for this country. that The dispatch from Seattle reports;ct•~ the case was considered so important by Stalin's government flg§_I!~§ - 2 that two eminent Russian diplom ts ent to Seattle to try and col ect those Russian deserters. NORTH RA CE ----------.-.. ... -~--- -- Toni bL we h ve mored t ils about the announced only as of today. But the more spectacular news of that American advance comas from the Germans. They say the American spearhead rolled on twenty five • .J4 miles past Verdun, and only twenty-five miles a■ away A from the German border. Patton•~ tan · s have b entering ~lon 6 t a hich has broken military records. They have raced through the Argonne Forest and across the River M Meuse for a distance of sixt7-five miles in less than twenty-four hours. On their way they captured the town of Saint Mibiel another scene of a great battle in the last World lsr. Meanwhile, the British in a whirlwind drive took Arras aJ.eo famous in milita~7 annals of ' the atz British in Nineteen seventeen and eighteen. Another turn of reminiscence comes from the NORTH RAiCE - 2 __ ..,.. ---...- --- ..... Canadians - remin ·s cence of this w r, not the last. After a t i ty mile adv nee from Rouen, they captured Dieppe. e all remember that Dieppe Com ma ndo Raid in Nineteen Forty-two when orcesp-edominantly Canadian made a landin g , only to encounter disaster by losing such a tragic proporti,n of their men. lell, today the Canadians wiped that memory out - by marching into Dieppe. Today's lightning advances by the British and Canadians had flanked the rugged coast in the sector ot Calais~ The bases for launching the robot planes are now virtually neutralized, and it w as noted • today that the rocket warfare aganst England had slowed down to a mere occasional robot. Instead of the projectiles coming over in swarms, only a few buzzed across the Channel. Late toni g ht the British and Canadians were only five miles south of Dieppe. ---------------------~~~-~ One thing about the swift Allied advances in northern France is this - they ere made today almo■ t w·thout r si ance . Pl ce like Verdun+ St. ihiel, rras , . ieppe, w ~ seized with<Uft hardly a shot being ~1 G rm ns are pullin g out • retreating t some n e w de f ense line. - here will th at be? We do 1 et know. But , here is an intimation An A eri c an fighter pilot reports that the Germ a ns in Belg1u . m and Hollard are flooding the country They havG opened the dykes s are being inundated. provide a water barrier for a defense of the Low Countries , . So that apparently is where the German . a now intend to make their stand, somewhere in Holland and Belgium•- and undoubtedly along tk•i~xii• the line of ,heir Siegfried fortifications to the south. Henry Gorrell of the o n·ted Press cables that he expects to be entering Be · l g ium tomorrow, along with th e ~ p e rhead . s of the J_irst .!_rmy of G#!lnere.l Bodtses . • In o t n r n , the allies are till a vanci , thou h i h not uite the spect · ular speed that a re. · orted ye, · erday. advan es have I _ Corresp ondent - s the ne · s is aee- behind · ---1 • Anyway, one Americ n column, after forging ahead nineteen miles northwest of Grenoble, is less than forty miles f~om Lyon. According to one report__,NiM - ~• not confirmed, the German Nineteenth Ai·my, entrusted with the•••* defense of the south of France, has been so badly cut to pieces that it is evacuating Lyon tonight . Five Allied columns, four m rican • and one French, are advancing .;on.a a sixty mile front. One dispatch quotes a captured Nazi general, 0 TH F C • L --- ..... .-.-..- ... ~~-- ........ - 0 of t un n · net - i hth German nfantry iv is ion, a ai&Jlio A o n ~~that the Nineteenth Army is itself from southeastern France. The mystery column, led by Brigadier-General Frederick Butl r, was in action again toaay, after a ~....._. ,..... ..,., week during which nothin was heard from it. AButler has a vanced iles and American and eighty-five with t!m"' northern A I ---------- A l V Euro t d y, h ther xce lent - cle i ht . i i i urin t,h r V ' OU& r ~ n r V y. s' h tory h d be n 0 of C ouds r in and b,ut la e t rda d weathe n to eak. today th the son mi ht be n - a.oh wb t, a lteautiiul IIOJ\ iD.g, oh, what a eautif UT. All f this oth-e-r t, rm llied air by murky skies. 'A-ttd the-a-.. erd J, • J> the sky - and fl~e~e of pland the break ha beau-t · e full might of Allied air power was hurled agiinst the enemy. Bombers and rlTafi:1tg fighter planes of every type 1 sallied forth to retreating Nazi o rt - F-r-a n c e , irb et-reatins. N~zi · south France - tft,@~..,,mane retreat.ing every w IRIHl'A,_ Al Fr o t 1 , lo r n b b r a ed at war b Bis - 1 the ay from iedmon to Hun ry, collabor ting i h he still re er irma d 8 . 1n the north. t ort nt fa tor lie in t th di pate s ive ~ figures for r ed. those in c essant bombing strafing a ainat German transport on ground - trucks k ocked out, railroad trains everything that 4'he rm n armies, to get offer the )lost targets - s~ no wender the news feat res figures for vehi and ninety others dama ed by British E.A.F. an area - between the Seine and Abbev lle. Durink the day, the urea piled up, an are still with the big Ninth Amtric n Tac ical Air ne i t h from ondon tels of a Germ n ajor General brought to En · . and - a priso.ner of ar f own across from Fr nee to an · nternment camp. Ween Hit1eP' a U& . jGP Qen.eral was fut into a transport ~~~~ plane for the f ~ ight, w s astonished. He looked about for m _ chine uns - but there were no machine guns. Then how would the transport, be able to fight back if attacked by German planes? Be was a little nervous a out that. hereupon an American officer explained: • • "We don't need any une." Luftwaffe?" . And then h~ asked: )(. , . The German Major General groaned, "That's what is the Luftwaffe?• . Rus ian di . vi ions re now on the border of Bul ria. Onits of the . ~ . cond Army of th • e Okr - ine ho captured Bucharest yesterd yr ced along to the southern fron . ti r of Romania. : Some divisions of tla t Army captured ano - ther import nt port on the Danube · ~ 11• a port w s the center of the oil traffic, also a junction point on the main railroad line from Buobare•t to Sofia capital of Bulgaria. A story from th Ru i a n front t - 11s of the disillu ion nt of umanian ol iers~ On bein sent to fi ht the Rusi ns, they w - re informed by their officers th t i n the Red Army there wa only one rifle ~ for eve y three men. lihich weelft certainly - .-.,~• ~ it be a push-over. · Then wh t ha pened? That is answered by a Rumanian prisoner of war, who is quoted as saying: "hen we arrived at the fr nt, we sa · that the offioers were . ht rig . There .!!! . only one rifle for every three Russians, but the other two R · ussians had tomay-guna.• ,._ - SATELLITES --------- The Cabinet of Bul aria is reported to have resined today, the Ministers of the Bulgarian government {) stepping out - as their country tries for peace. In fact, Bulgarian peace negotiations have been going on - at Cairo. And from there we hear the talks for an araiatice were suspended today, as a result of the report of the resignation of the Bulgarian Cabinet. And Hungary continues t o ~ sy■pto■• of setting out - with one story atating toda7 that Ger ■ an troops were occupying Budapest, as the Hungarian capital seeths with peace talk. On the other hand, we have a denial that Germany itself has been aaking overtures for an end of the war. This denial comes from Secretaty of State Ccr dell Hull, . who today stated that the United States has not received any offer of surrender or of peace from Nazi Germany. F .. f /i Y ------- up 09 • i l jue-t h Ye- -to- -8 it i ho trh eo ~ Germany el-eoa th~ at e a~ the Nazi Propaganda Minister. / to a Swedish . &Uppeeea ~ . newspaper, 8 he" called together hie gauleiters)in Berlin/and told them that "every as ■ z a village, every town, every avJ~~ house must be defended" , a■~ procla-imed that a Third Army, consisting of women and children , w ould be formed to fight beside the regular Nazi army and the S.S. troops. • J ~ 1 Tonight we have official denials of charges that have been made concerning President ftoosevelt's trip for wsr conferences in Hawaii. One of these was a do11i.e ~ ;{ tale related yesterday by Congressman Inutson of Minnesota, who quoted Congresswoman Clare Luce of Connecticut. The story was that when the President stopped at the Aleutian Islands on his way ho ■e fro• ~ Hawaii, the White Bouse~Fala,got lost, presidential party left w i t h o u t , , < ~ and the When thia was discovered, a destroyer was sent bact to get Fala, a warship kken -frea- 4at,.it,1,e,- d'"'J' to bring back one d a 1 . ~ , - . Thia was denied today in Congress by Representative McCormack of Massachusetts, who says he has the information from Ad ■ iral Le.y. Said the . Congressman: •Admiral Leahy informs e that the story about Fala is made out of whole cloth. The dog was never lost. It was never sent for, and could not ROOSEVELT TRIP - 2 --------------- .___....._ __ have been sent for, bec a u s e it a s never lost at any time during the trip."So Fala was not lost and it is folly o say so. Another story a l leged by Congressman Knutson was that the President, on his trip to Hawaii, was accom anied by what the Congressman called •a flotilla of battleships, cruisers and destroyors that should have been out in the Far Pacific fighting the Japa.• This too was denied categorically bf Congressman UcCor ■ ack on the authoritJ of Admiral Leahy. In the face of these denials, Congress ■ an Inutson ■akes reference to something that he clai ■a has not been denied. He says that no one has challenged a statement made by ColumniAt Drew Pearson, thatt\he President's Pacific trip cost the taxpayers twenty million dollars. And, m~reover, he today alleged still another. He spoke of a trip to Auetralia,~J what the Congressman called, liJ"a very famous American woman in a bomber which had been altered to permit the installation of a shower bath." Another resi nation from the Political Action Committee of the C.I.O. Today the tenth member ot the P.A.C. in Rhode Island stepped out. Be said hia union local was dissatisfied with the operation of th Committee, and added: •1 don't believe labor should mix in politics.• With this latest resignation, half ot the ~ P.A.C. membe~btp in Rhode Island 1-" out, and they being characterised by the remaining ■e ■bers aa - "disrupt ers. " PARIS HATS .... _________ ... . ...,...,._ Paris liberated, it ls on we l . t . 18. have - a Paris to be expected -tlrtt fashion note./\ Bera to be changed. During the Bazi occupation ladaae and ' " Madamoaelle adopted a kind of headgear that has been I' making the eyes of American soldiers gape and blink - although the A ■ erican males are used to eo ■ e aatoniahin1 things along that line at home. The bats along the boulevards are huge and exaggerated, crowns eighteen inches high and the modest kind of floppy bria1. ' ~ Today lada•r-iTaA&~•~ of the the lea~i~I creators of Parisian ■ illinery explained: •we ■ ade the■ fantastic, just to keep our spirits up•. Oui, Oui, Madame, the exaggeration of the hat increases the courage. But now, with Paris liberated, that kind of hat- courage isn't needed any more, and so, as the Parisian •~1li1t informs us, there is to be a change. •Those bats,• says she, •are too flamboyant to be the height of fashion now.• VALLEE ...... ~---- who were divorced~ul~ are now together again} living in bliss on a hilltop. tonight when•• she said:- •our divorce has brought us closer together than ever•. Still another celebrated pair are reconciled, Sergeant and Mrs. Joe Di Maggio. The lady obtained a decree last llay but under California law it does~ . - , stici until next May. The ■ en and women--about.;. town of San Francisco in the last few days have been edified by the spectacle of the Home Run ling and his decorative wife,frequenting several of the interesting spots in San Francisco,that paradise of epicures. - - - - - 0 '-dL To ay's anniversar of th be innin of the urope a n ar, the fifth anniversary of Hitler's wanton atta k on Polan, brin s to mind something that I read r c ntly on the ubject of Pol n d . This~ found in a recently pub lished book, "The Rod to Foreign Policr•, by Bugh Gibson - ham e kno so ell on this program. Bugh Gibson was, of course, one of the foremost ot ~ -tc, ~~ ~ --- American diplomats, Ambassador to Belgium, - American ,... observer of the League of Nations at Geneva. Row he writes on t:11:w foreign policy with a wealth of long and distinguished experience.Yin his book, "The Road to ? , t ; L - ~ / ~ Foreign Policy", he discusses the current d1sput~ e ■ iweea Pelan• &tid auf"W4;::;Jl~w.:i:4£+ with Stalin demanding about half of the p re-war territories of Poland. The following is an example of Hugh Gibson's lively and entertaining style in · ritlng about foreign affairs. ().)tJ._I Hespe s of ihose who, in his ords, ~not content with abandoning P ol nd to her fate--l;;::::-; the luxury of doing BUGH IBSON - ____ ......... _____ ..._ _ __, it on hi h moral roun ds ! I\ may vepy ," ~ , . ....... ~B.:. ~ - 1iiiOa ~ - "tha w To which he adds the following sprightly sraeli and Gladstone: "The present attitude of some people," observes Hugh Gibson, "is reminiscent of Disraeli's remark - when he said, in a moment of exasperation, that he did not so auch mind Gladstone having the ace of spades up his sleeYie, but he did object to his pretending that it was the Heavenly rather who put it there." Hugh Gibson reasons that we must thank the Soviets for the stupendous part they are playing in the war, and cooperate with them after the war is over. But there is no use of becoming extravagant about it. HUGH GIBSO ------------.- ....... - , rites: •our hole attitude, both '-IL. I overnment and people, · • 'you great-big-wonderful- boy~' Swer, bhing Fh2saia deee ia right,• be add.a. "e can criticize the British, we ea& held ■ eetinga and make apeecbea aie ■ entllug th@l1° empire in the aida,t, ol wary But nothing of that sort for our great-big- wonderful-boyfriend." And now come. th&t other great-big-wonderful boy, Hugh James. STRIKE ------~--- At Clevel a nd today, two United States Army rolled truck~»uAthrough as rikers' picket line, and that settled one question at a plant making a vital kind of ar material - vital for those giant B-29 Superfortresse~ The plant is tied up by a strike, and that /~ilie4:-- stopped the production of the articles it •~•••••a ~ - ball bearings. Mor could the stocks already manufactured IJ be taken out -me strikers• picket line stopped two civilian trucks that tried to load up with the ball bearings. And you know how important t h ~ l t ~ apheroi~ machinery, especially to the elaborate mechanillas of the B-29s. fso today two Army trucks rumbled to the plant, 1tft& fhere was no i n t e r f e r e n c ~ ~ went right on through the picket line,and brought out heavy loads of ball bearings for the Superforts. Concernin g the question of the use of force to pres e rve the peace, we hear another voice today aaying - Yes. The voice of Pope Pius the Twelfth. In a radio address today, the Roaan Pontiff decla~ed that at the end of the present war, the threat of ar ■ ed force ■ ight haYe A1,Cl. to be held over such nations••• ■ ight be te ■ pte• to A break the peace. Pope Pius, aoreover, repeated hi• previoua in injunctions - urging that~the ~oat-war world~order, the rights of all peoples, auat be upheld. Be touched likewise upon the rights of the co ■ aon ■ an, thie in terms of property. Re declared that the Church recognizes that property is a necessary prerequisite of human l ife, and of the right and dignity of man.