nl l ied war power on the Western Front was sure rollin g tod a y - in high! The American linth Army storm L d forw a rd north of Aix-la-Chapelle to the ( ltd l T River Roer, - not to be confused with the River Along the Roer the Germans have ong defense line, one of the main obstacles the have to overrun before they reach the main line, at the Rhine. lorth of the Yanks the British Second c three more Dutch forts, and then drove ~ ahea h ~ . T h ey are now than two and a half miles away fro m Venlo which have built up into one of the strong their Siegfried Line. -----0------ Eschweiler, a f ctory city of s ome fift a n d the Ge rman g arrison refu R e to R ive battl e ~ They simply w ith d rew a nd General Hodg e s no has c omma nd of nine m i l e s o f the g reat auto hi g h ay le ad in g from Aix-la-Ch a p e lle to Coloene. ______ _,;......;.._ _ _____________ .._ Further south Patton's men wiped ouL the last resistance of the garrison at lletz. East of Metz, Patton's Ninetieth Division advanced ten miles and crossed the Saar border only ten mile west of Ar ■ ored Division, already insfde th frontier, bore the brunt of a heo.vy German counter- ttack, which they z ■ J ■ •i repulsed with heavy loaae the Boche. ----- -0----- The American Seventh Army is also driving into the Saar from the northern end.of the es Mountains •• with one of its columns the Saverne Gap, in those ffiO Untains, and capturing ree towns. Another column now is lese than twenty the ~it big city of Straasbourg. --------- In the southern Vosges the French First rmy, havin g pierced the Belfort Gap, captured Mulhouse, an important city of s outhern Alsace. Gen .al T ssigny•a fi hters stormed Mulhouse o swiftly that so e members of the staff of the Field ~ar hal comma . nding the German Nineteenth Ar m y, were unable to escape and were captured. Last Mon1ay we heard that Tassigny had taken Colmar, twenty-£wo miles north of Mulbouse. That was optimistic and premateur, but now ~~ the French are at - the gates of thatt\fortress town. The German counter- attacks have been strong in that~rea. Swiss • correspondents reported th~t the Nazis had recaptured several Alsatian villages which the French bad taken earlier in the week. All in all, we are told, the recent Allied victori•s are so many an so wide-spread, that there is an ai ■ aira electric air of confidence at Supreme Allied Headquarters. Later this eve ■ ing, Eisenhower's headquarter told us that the capture of Mulhouse means that the fifty-thousand front line Ge r man troops have been trapped. !ka•lax■■~That's one-tenth of the Nazi ~ strength on the Western Front. TA N K BATI1~ - One key eng a gement in the bitter mt battles of the German Rhineland has been a ~onster clash of tanks that occurred northeast of Aachen, with the armor of Lieuten nt General Simpson in desperate conflict with a · powerful force of Panzers. One hundred enemy tanks were in the fray, including forty-two of those new seventy-ton Nazi giants called -- "ling Tigers. " The tank battle lasted for four days, with the armored forces swayi~g back ana forth on a level plain. The Germans attacked again an! againr 'if/;'the Aaericana launched their own r ■ ar■ roaring thrusts c f armor and cannon fire. ~ - +- Today~Simpson's tanks dominate th~battlefield - th-Jt;!on ~ ~ x(Buge G'erman Panzer forces, including all tho e "King Tigers," were badly beaten up and hurled back) ~hatr · 1:oaua in tl,e foul' <lay- .QJ)gasemeat were hea¥y end eo we r e oare~ ae~8 from the eeot,er ef Aeehea s\ates thai Sim~eea had• 1-8 ■ any tank& ilA ae t,h@ Qermo.ne did, e11t. they weft +.beiP- ,,aitiea __ ..... t=tle .•.met leans, wi. . t.a _, t:!J]f1P-=f 8 1.1 g ~ TAil BATTLE - 2 ----- · ~--------- · - .. reserve of : ; a t , will be able to repl&ce their l o s s e s , ~ the Germans will,11.'1i:ft;f-:,'tf&. ~ .le,, &e fro■ e•ery •iew the ■oae,,:,:;1:~a•• ., .. ,.... •· a elearee\, though herd won Aaerieea 1•eee1a ... GE R N ' O R AL ~------------ N ew or d comes of disturbances inside of Ger •itl1 th e latest oeiftg a et-er,- via Switzerland. It tills th a t in the ba t tered city of Cologne, the Nazis machine g unned a peace demonstration.· were out protesting against the futile continuation of a hopeless war. And some of·the people even sboute •Long live the Allies•. So says the story) and it adds that Nazi machine gunners opened fire on the crowd and more than two hundred and twenty • persons were killed :1f' Th is m&Jl be an exaggeration of horror in Cologne, but it tallies with stories told by German prisoners of war, enemy soldiers captured by the Aaerican First Army in fro~t of Cologne, confirming the stories of disorde~ within the city. They tell of the Gestapo han g in g civilians for crying out against the 1ar;this is linked with earlier dispatches which told oft enty-one pe~so s hanged in a sin g le day:1f°'A newspaper in Switzerlan a declares that tb ~ se demon s tra- tions have occurr ed in other to , ·.1E of the Germa n fthineland. e crLt un erground agents po s ting placards callin g upon the people to take action a g ainst the Nazis. The Swi s story d escribes the feelin of the people of be heavily bombed cities in the following wor · s: ye rnin g for peace, cost wh a t it may•. An d \ar front news says that ,ood o;/4opelessness has spread to the German Armyr e'--e, di s satisfaction because of insufficient weapons, foo and clothing. ¥ore end·more Germans are deserting, and the Nazi Comman era~ to discoura g e this.., have resorted ehoods, telling that the Americans All these nsiatent accounts of crackin g in Germany are to be balanced against the iron repression exercised by t l.e Nazis and the Gestapo t h e two factor& to be conlidered as pro-and con in tryin g to fi g ure the pos~i J ilities of a crack-up in Nazi Germany. !liLL Last atur d ay Polis troops of' the Allied forces in Italy captured onte Fortino, a strong hil~point overlookin g the road to Fienz~hey didn\t hold it long.D,eg;:wa,e the G eraans wun.t.er-e~kekeli en• d rove them out. o d ay tle Poles weati4o-it eaee .... oTe, an• -..,-f-lL... • .- t.aie-~ reca1 ! red Monte Fortino;~1!':k:•~ drove I\ . ahead, a g ainst strong resistance, to seize another bill onl7 four miles to the south of Fienza. The British troops of the Eighth Army are also coming close to that cit7, which is the most important highway junotion on the road from Rimini to Bologna. JUl§§.IA On the Eastern Front the winter attack of Soviet armies i~ on in full force - in the Baltic state. We he a r • • now that in Western Latvia thirty armies threatening them. Command has thrown huge reserves cf' tanks.into the battle of Latvia. The Nazis are trying to withdraw from the island of Saaremaa across the mouth of the Gulf of • Riga. But the Red forces have them surrounded in • a pocket fr ,1r mi lee deep, bombarding them f r • land, sea and air. -----0----- And German commentators in Berlin admit that . ~, the Nazis are about to lose Miskolc, the fifth largest city in Hungary, eighty miles northeast of Budape t. VOROSHILOV - ----- Another great Soviet mil~tary figure slips into the background -- Voroshilov. 0ntil a HJlt'llr&t,iv,_..,. recenk-a th6. Marshal of the Red / \ Army was in the forefront of Ru~sian military affairs right beside Stalin. He was a headline commander in the first part oft e Soviet-Nazi war, and as Now Moscow states that arshal Voroshilov has been retired from the Soviet Defense Council -- which Council embo.dies the• supreme R\8 sian command. 'Relieved of his duties,• says Moscow -- with no further explanation of why Voroshilov has been dismissr l.from bib defensj council post. VOROSBILQL=_l co11 ■and o disappe / ed from the So t develop young Gene ale who feat of ~ a z i . by had beginni the v goes, his generals -- in n military In the Pacific Uncle Sam's heavy bombers have ~ raided -r Japanese naval ba · e ct lh a11•i Ba~ in northwestera Bo r neo for the third ti~e in four days. In addition to hilting enemy inatallations, they blew up a Japanese light cruiser and damaged anotla r warship. In other parts of the Pacific A11er lean ,ar planes have •x sunk or damaged seven more Japanese vessels. AndJ tonigh General Arnold announced the destruction of the first two superfortresses ever shot down by Japanese intercept-Or planes. This was in tue raids which the Twentieth Air Force made on ""' Japan and occupied•China,yesterday. A thirdAof the giant fly11g forts is rep rted missing; and1 there is reason to be l .ieve it may ■&][E~ ha · e beed 1 o - st. But to offset that the g reat bombers destroJed or damaged sixty-one Japane s e planes besides •recking the huge aircraft works at Omura and othe1'laces. .... ADD PHILIPPI IE ----- - --------- This afternoon the Navy announce~ that planes of Lhe Thir ct ¥let in he raids on Yanila last Saturday sank two Japanese merchant vessels besides bitting three others · and setting twelve on fire. Our Fighter planes and Motor Torpedo Boats have been har r assin g the supply lines on which the Japanes are reinforcing their troops on Leyte. They have sunk or damaged no fewer than fifty-four barges, also eight coastal vessels. JA PA _...- th · ha -up 1n th J p a n e. e Hi b ~omm r.d. Fi ld 1a .hA l H tlt , a , who h a~ bee the i a o' ·· 1.1011l1 an r- in- C hi ef i Chin a · i c Nineteen Forty-one, ha s been fire . t i. , they've relieved hi. of his job 1 a n d ~ ade him I ~pector Gene a l of trainin . Twelve other key en in e l'll, ria l Ar y h a v e ee n art• s . hifted around. , I ' ------ The Le µon es ri te is 1 n fai r v ay t o ec o~e n at ion~ ide. In O io, up to a la t hou r t i eve6in g it ~ as a adloc . The National ar Labor Board took a hand 1n thut xi walk-out a nd laid down a f lat ruling it i l l p r it th t 1 ii•J ar•xmaki•~,no negotiations between the company an d t union until the strikers r et urn to work. To hich the Ohio telephone operators promptly retorted, t h ey would not o back to their jobs until the Army took over. At that, a member of the National Board declared the WLB would do everything in its power to make sure the union does not win. The Ohio telephone workers countered that statement by appealing to the forty-one other unions in the country to call their people out in sympathy wi h the Ohio strike. Then the President of the National Feder ation announced th t the grievances of the operata- in Ohio are not local, but nationaide. Tl e next t i n took place in four of the 1 r g est cities 04 the E t, e~ York, Chic a o, Detroit and Washin g ton• T1ere the telephone op r tors c al led ..,"' u c..: -2- ----------- ner e Y m e tin e t;; to cor. 1 r wh • ther they would join the Oh i o o r · tors. In W a h in ton, o 1· a ors even l e t t 1r ~itchboards to~•·• atlen meeting. If tl.e vot is favorable to strike, it will crip le if not virtually paralyze all telephone communication in th East. rresh bulletins are pouring in every fifteen home rant minutes. Thi is becoming the big ~ st story since I\ the Election. At any moment we may hear tha operators on the Pacific Coast are considering a sympathy strike. But, as anyone can see , the oper a tors in just three places can ti e -up the whole ~orks, Chicago, Washington, and Ne York · Th t'ir~t r po!"ts fro . the m eting o opera ors iu \':ash in ton i dicate that they will join up Yt i th t,ha t their ister::, i Ohio. But, at &O a r ~i. k • r • I\, i uno ficial, ot po · itive . T IK - l ------- - - ~ In S , t 1 0 BeTv::::wu riotin by ~ tri ing taxi o er a tor . To a y there Ne e only nine cabs availa le in th bi city on Puget ound, nine taxies for a po ul tion of a l a million peorle. This is not a strike of men a ainst the company, b u t of en a ainst the Union. The independent cab drivers charge t e of icials of the Onion with showing favoritism to the operators of the big taxi chains. standa. ti rmo of thus service men in uniform were forced to et out of a cab. They retaliated by calling the strikers draft-dodgers:"'At the midnight eeting last ni 5 ht the Secretary of the Onion made a peech to the strikers, some of whom started slapping h i ' ; ~ "8 had to be rescu d by force. Some of the striker compelled t h e operator of chain taxies to put their passengers out on the street and give up the keys of their cars. All of this has been particularly tough A/"\..(LJ.~-~~-t-e on tr v le s ho ~e~:o:n±tt:::=•A g t fro the r ailw ay station to t=he =k- hotels . B Bl!:R ------- t e n- irt this mo rnin a i fl ing for t r o t in to tr u l o er itch 1 1 , outh D kot , a . be entire ere b i out n the great plane roared on, 1 in D utchm · n ••t of the ky. Before th e b iled out th e irmen ~ e t he a utomatic pilot so as t o c rr the ship to ard Chic a g o, and all day observatio~po ts throughout the Mid le West have been on the lookout crewl e ss for thatA_plane; and reportE, came in from various parts of the country. Y,ell, it crashed finally, in northwestern Minnesota, ne a r Lake Superior. Evidently the fai ing motor and we ther conditions had caused the pilotless craft to fly far off course, into the Minnesota ildernesi::. BI H O ------ u r n t , Fi r s t · : or d W r a . is i ngu i h of i c er 1 n t ri i h Arm as Lieuten nt Colonel ' alte r u h rt Bad eley, of t ·n e onc e amo u f mi ly of tennis 1 e r • He h a achieve th t rank aft r enterin l o ly ~cond Lieutenant. A fter thew r the Colonel ie nt t Oxford, to study for th . ini try. Then off h e went to the South P a cific, as a m issi o nary forte Church of England, and in time bec · me a Bishop with probably the largest diocese in the world. Bishop of el nesia, with pari s hes scattered over thousands of miles of t e o th Pacific. When the Japs invaded the Solomons, the Rt. Rev e r e nd Bishop took to th e ush. Hid with hjs people, his black pari honers, in the jun le. And ther he stayed 11 tl rou b the Japanese occupation of those islands. hll th j s b comes news becau e tod Y at Colum ia 0 · actor 1 ·cholas urray Butler conferre d he n1ver ity, Doctor 0 _ · Sacred Theology u on the Rt. Reveren d Ru rt Baddeley, Bishop of elane ia. n lh r e ' s s rt ge of turk yon lhe hom e ron t , it' · oo d n ev.s to hea r that the boys overse s t il h v e ple nt. There will b e turkey d 'nn e r s f or ur i a htin in six Europe an coun t ries, inclu ~ in Germ · ny. M a n o our unifor m ej p ople in urope w'l attend se rvices in cathedr & ls that t h e y themselves have helped free fro m the P · gan Nazis. They'll have a chance to attend Hieb Mass at the magnificent old cathedral of Notre D me , in Paris, ~t the beautiful Gothic Cathedr 1 in Rheims, and a t the cathedr a ls t Ch tree, Metz, Rouen, a n s o n. nd of course there , il l be special services also ·or Prote s tants and the Je,s. ~ for Th nksgiving dinner, tk•x• their m nus w ill re ad : Roast tu rkey with g r vy; sage d res, in g ; fres mashed pot toes; glazed sweet potatoes; pe s, · kin pi 0 • h o t r o l s; carrots; cr r nberry s uce, , ■ pump -, - 2 utt e r; a r d c n d y , a pples nd o r a n e . ni or those · ho haves ns, s eetheart, husban ~ n · broth rs t the ront, that oun d s like o o news. Pr e ide n t oo s v e lt to a y receiv d an apology fro m - ~ in i s t e r s o f t he o · p e 1 . Thi f o 11 ow s the h i t e BoUE de nial l a s t ni g ht th a ~ the Pr e s i d ent in voting with a balky ac hine at Hye P ~ rk, used cuss or d s and violate d th e econd o mma ndment. The President says he used only one four-letter ord -- beginnin g with _ d and endin g with n. Nothin m ore-- and that brin g s an apology to the Pre s ident from· the Glendale,California, Ministerial Association which, on the basis of newspaper stories, l'Bd rebuked F.D.R. for taking the name of th e Lo rd in · vain. ro . · ri. ,"lso ~ 0E11 8 n f a striie ' a t rL e 0 ch :::, i r l . The oun 1 i _s re e i th r o in · to u ii or p u on loth s - - an - t ou l d beco ne of a 1' risi a n r Vie ' i t h irls ere d re 3 ed? 'lhe ir com l a in t l that th e . theatres a 1 · e too cold. Only the stars et kliat h e t in th ir dressin.::, ro o ms. Th ana er a re terrified. If the l a ies of the ense . ble e to cov~r u p their· epidermis, the icicles woul be~ llin not only in the dre s sing ro ms but al o in the box office windo s.