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
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...
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--
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.
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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
•
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---
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...
~~--
........
-
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
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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.