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l
d s
e
em to i
t t
b
t
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n
I
n
ia
, t
he
t
o
n of
.
Ia
ph
al is in imminent d
a
n
g
er
o
f
b
ei
n
completely
■urrounded
- with all com
m
unic
ati
ons cut
o
f
f
. T
h
e
l
atest
is
a d
i
spat
ch from Mountbatten's he d
q
ua
r
te
r
s,
w
hich
states
that Japanese jun
gl
e for
c
e
s have driven to the
last
supply route for the
g
a
r
ri
s
on of British and Indian
~
troops.
The J aps
n
thrust several spearhea
d
s that
nave
reached the vital hi hw
a
y, and bitter fighting is
going
on. The Japs
a
re tryin
~
to establish a road block,
cutting the supply route - while British troops are
fighting desperat
e
ly to hurl the enemy back and keep
the line ope
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surrounded an
have
to s
t
and a
sie
ge
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in ·
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it
c
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be
su
pp
lie on
l
y
by air.
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once formi
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an
now
much
batt
re
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c
a
lled Truk.
It
,
.
the
eleventh
blo
-
and one of
range
bombers,
based
on
the
,
ars
alls,
hit
five
of the
is
la
nd
bases
in the Truk
Atoll.
These bass
~ere
thickly
pa
ked
with
naval
e.nd
air
installations,
'
-
s
.
lendid
targets
for
the
bombers.
'n
d
shar
p
l
imed high explosives burst in
the
maze• of installation]'witli eruptions of debris.
~nd, at the same time, other American air forces
blasted the usual assortment of Jap b ses - like much
bombed Ponape.
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The weather in Northern Europe was bad today,
which halted the operations of the heavy bombers.
The
light aircraft of battle, however,
were
in vigorous
action.
Aaerican Thunderbolt fighter-bombers based on
Dritain devasted a German anti-invasion airfield in
lorthtaatern
France today.
They darted out of heavy
cloud banks that filled the sky and destroyed at least
t••nty planes on the ground.
And laet night Berlin was assailed once again.
Light Mosquito boabers:f!::;. all the wa1 to the
Naz1-
capit.4l, in spite of the weather. The elements were in
the worst possible aood, and the Mosquitos flew through
~
a Yiolent electrical storm over the Borth Sea
aa4 ht:&
aaii
hit Berlin~n~ adding
■ ore
havoc to what is
already a city of havoc.
all
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t
)
A ne
American ace
has
ashed
to the fore
b?bae
Captain Bob
Johnson of
Lawton,
Oklahoma, who
today
was
~.
placed ahead of Captain Don
entile
-~~~~
of Piqua,
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record of
thirty
azi
Gentil~as made headlines with
his
planes
destroyed - seven blasted on
the ground,
and
twenty-three
shot down in combat.
,
Today, the figure for Bob Johnson is - twenty-
ftve, and all of these were knocked down in air battle.
~
That puts him two ahead of Gentile.
Johnson has had three
I\.
victories in the
l st
couple
of
days, two of them
yesterday - while
protecting
bombers in the
ig raid
agab
against Sch einfurt~
nd
it
looks
as
if Gentile will have
trouble
ta
catching u
ith
·
him
- because the
air
battler
whom
General
Eisenhower
called
a
one-man air force",
has been rounded temporarily - until he
recovers
from
tbe
sk■ cki•
xx, sha
1
in
u
he
at
hen
his
ust
ng
cracked
up in
tk•
lan ing.
Our aces over
~urope,
however,
a r e ~
out-done
by
the star erformer in the
Pacific,
that ace
of
aces -
~
Bong of
Poplar,
/\.
is cons in.
The news today is that Bong
is no• a major. - 14,e was promoted yesterday, the day on
which he shot down his twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh
Jap.
Toni
ht
the
ovie
forces are
ithin
nineteen
tA.--12.-
-
miles of Sevastopol
preat
naval ba
s
e in the Crimea
and
the
umber
ne obj
ctive
of the
Soviet drive.
And,
Red
Army units have driven all the wny across the
peninsula, striking southward to the B
lac
k
Sea.
jeanwhile,
Russian naval
an
air
forces are
establishing a blockade to prevent
·
the escape of Germans
b7
sea.
Today
~
oviet planes kept smashing at coastal
points fro• which an evacuation might be atteapted.
The Crimean camp&ign bas been a whirwind affair,
in which more than fifty-three thousand Nazis have been
~~-
killed or captured;\- a whirlwind of Russian advances that
certainly should remind the Germans forcefully, if
unpleasantly, of their own
pet
word - "blitzkrieg."
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rock tortresa,
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■ aasive
eminence of stone
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crowned
by
a atrongbold. Thia ia now occupied
by
a
force of
Ger■ ana
and
they are trapped. Yugoala•A&
c~,~
partiaan1 of larshall
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drawn a ring
F ~
- , fighting
of iron and fir~ around the fortre••••~•
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is going on,
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the partisans try to stor
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tbe
rocky beigbt,/\the Geraan command rushes troops to
retrieve the situation which threatens the whole line
of
co ■■unicationa
in Bosnia.
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We
are to
have
w
ar
news
more
promptly.
'he
Army,
the
avy, and
the
0
• • I.
have ins ructed the commanders
in the areas of battle to
ive
out the tidings without
'
---~.---r-
dela~ -}such
news
as is not harmful to military security.
The announcem nt, just issued ir
a
s
hin
g
ton, describes
the new policy in these words:
"an effort to produce
the fullest possible flow of information, without
distorting the importance of either
good
news
or
ba .•
All of which is designed apparently to meet the
criticis ■
t~at follo~ed the disclosure of American
transport planes shot down
by
mistake in the Sicilian
campaign. The
disclosure
wa
made seven months after the
event.
Hee is u
roposal to
ive to the veterans
f the
Ary
an
the
avy
the
ost-war ownership and control of
the war
lants now owned by the government. This
suggestion was made today by Seer tary of the Interior
Ickes,
who spoke of tra sferring t~ the millions of
demobilized men and women the possession of what he
called •a giant
se
ment of American industry."
•It would,• he went on, "be the most appropriate
and the most beneficial form of a bonus payment to them.
It
would amount to givin
these ten million young people
shares of stock in the America for which they have risked
t.heir
lives
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The Secretary's idea would
seem
to be that the
host of demobilized vet
j
ans
would be stockholders in
a
gl.
t
·
h1·ch
would o erate the
lants now
an
corpora
10
,
owned by the
gove~n
ent. "It
o
db
a
free
undert
~
in
"
t
" ithin th
fr mewor.
an
geared
e,
_
__
t
_
o the
~bjectives
of
p
ivate enter rise."
Here
is
the Numb r
One
manpo
r t
s
of
Nineteen
Forty-four:
k;a-tf~~~
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, _ report states that
the
extent to which
women
s
are leaving war jobs has re ched what it callsli •alarming
A.
proportions.•
lfLast summer,
-tbl bt'?R
pueb
AUS
AeuAct
•ban
.aw
seventeen-■ illion,-nine-hundred-thousand
women
were engaged in armament
production.
Now the figure is
siateen-11illion,
four-hundred-thousan
·
- a decline
of
a
mil.
ion
an
d
a
half.
4'ae aee.Na&e
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■ ttmd
mus~
t,
e re
oAi
1.Cih
The
r
o
ort
i
v
es an
xpl nation~the
,A.
large
number ■
of
women
uitting their
w
r jobs.
O
ne is
-
fatigue,
just
g
ettin
!Jc
too
tired
to
k:lc,:p,
on wor
k
in.
A
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i::nl
&
ovt:
~
d
are roportion of the women
wor ers not
only 1 bor int e
ants but
sot,
ke ca.re
of their homes -
hich amounts tot o jobs.
And fu~ther,
many
feel that th need for their services has been
exagger
ted, and others believe the
war
is
about over -
an exceedingly mistaken opinion.
~
Tc,
ii
t
gtrt\9r
h
v e
som
et ils/\about
the
revolution in
n
lv
or
t
ee
end.
t
aff
ir
as
been
hi den b
ce
or
1 ,
and
hit
erto
e have
heard comparativel
l
itt e
·
but it. But no
the
United ress has a story that three hu dred
lives
were
lost int e Easter
week
insurrection, and that the
uprisin wa
ut don only
aft
r forty-eight hour
of the
fiercest
kin
of
fi
hti~g.
At first the insurrectoia ha
the better of it.
They had tans and bombing planes. And
we've
had stories
that they used
lend-lease
material from the United
States.
They captured a number of places - including
za
two radio stations, from which they broa cast ap eals
a
to the public.
In the ton
o~
Santa
h1\na,
the
rebels
giined complete control ()n the first d Y,
an
held an
election -
s
lecting
a
ne
mayor.
Then,
r
u ly,
the
overn
ent
forces
had
the
bett
of th
fi
hting,
revolt.
and
wee abl,.
suooreaa
th
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CBAPLJ
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An
development in the Chaplin case. That
e ~
is
the next Chaplin
case.
A~~~--
as
to be
tried,
together with four public offic·a1s, on the charge of
railroeding Joan Barry out of town.
She
as arrested,
and t e police judge suspended her sentence on condition
that she leave Hollywood immediately.
The police judge
in
question, Charles
J.
Griffin,
made
a plea arguing
that his action was quite leg 1.
And today he was
sustained
by
a Federal cour;
0
wj~ch ruled that he be
7 F ~ ~
eliainated
from the case.
f~le
r"
a bad setback for the
prosecution,
which
charges that Joan Barry
was depriTed
of her
civil rights.
~:rmmediately
the defense
announced that
i
ould make similar~leas in behalf
!
of three other police off.cials.indicted along
with
Charlie Chaplin.
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In
P
·
t
ts b ur h ,
rs .
..
el
i
to
d
y -
n ,she was
not
g
oin
to move. rtn
she
a
a bit isturbed
a
nd
indi nant as she made the state ent.
She is the
m
other of seven sons in the armeo
services,
an
d
0
1
e
of these is Ser eant
~
Commando Kelly,
the one-man army who, all
by
himself, wiped out forty of
the Nazi enemy.
Be
was
a
•
arded the
COagPAaB=Blt
·
edal
-
:!'J.?nor, and bis fame w s heralded ry press and radio.
,r
(IJtX.
df:"¼~
~ b r o u g h t attention to Commando
elly's home in
Pittsburgh - wher be was born and raised and where his
■other
still live
s
"!'There w re expressions of
-,:-~~
astonishment, sh
ck, and chagrin.~ house was described
as -
"a decre
t'
·
shack."
~~~
It is
A"
''A
n
e
1ghb
o
rhoo
lie
eo
p
le ho live th
e
re
of junk y
a
rds
a
n
'
old barns.~
-i£w-L ~ :
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11
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ili, -
"Pitt
s
bur
g
h's Tob
a
cco
~
oa
d
."
~~tt,Ee~cms:=L
is on the
s
c
·
on
f
oo
r
o
f
a
IILLY -
2
----
ramshackle
fram
b~i
l
in
and
con
s
i
s
ts of two rooms
and
an
~
no
h:o:t
runnin
g
water,
'A
tt,
attic.
There is no
el
ectricit
y
,
an
and the only heat is a co
a
l stove in the
living
room.
That's
the
place where
rs.
Kelly
r
a
is
e
d her seven
soldier
~
G l . . ~ 4 ~ ~ -
boys,
-=
one of them
la
:a:-Qa:a~acssi"lht&II
lludal Main
,\
With
public attentio
·
n directed toward the
K
elly
ho ■ e,
the Public Housing Authority at Pittsburgh decided
to do something about it. They went to
Mrs. Kelly and
said they would
provide
her with a
nice apartment in a
modern buildfog.
erol
1,llcy
'do
doub~ected her to
ju11p
at the Chance~ llut -
No1 Today
rs.
K
elly announced that
she
wouldn't
move -
she
didn't w
a
nt any fine up~to-date
apartment.
Sh
e was hurt and upset by t
h
e talk about her
home, the re
fe
rences to - Rthe decre
p
it shac
k
."
"
W
e've lived here for a lon
g
time," she
declared
with
dignity, "an
d
i
t
may not be much.
But it's
home to
us."
Commando
elly has been
granted leave
to
go
home
nd,
with his Congressional
Medal
he is returnin from
Italy to
ittsbur h.
And we
hear that his six brothers
have also been
iven leave,
so that
rs.
Kelly's
seven
boys
can
all
be
home
to ether:«Pittsburgh is
preparing
a hero's welcome, \here will be a parade, and the schools
have been
asked to declare a holiday. Commando
Kelly's
quarters
will be in the Willia• Penn Hotel - the suite of
)(14;~
~~
~
, . . . . ~
honor.
..,tt
iW1f:
+sb.B~ as 'Pittsburgh's hero.
But for
-
A
'
~
the Ielly boys, their r al home will/\be over there
in
'Pittsburgh's
Tobacco Road.
9
1"
For
Mrs. Kelly
is not moving
out of
the
two rooms
a
n
d
an attic in the ramshackle
frame
buildin
-
with
no
electricity,
no
hot
runnin
water
and
no heat save
a coal
stove.
J.t
may be a "decrepit
shack"
to some, but it's "liome·sweet
Home•
to
1msa-¼ ~ •
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The United States
ha~
han ed
a stern
warning to
Spain - on the subject
of
American oil in Spanish
Morocco.
It bas been learned that the Franco
government
planned
to seize
quantities
of American petroleum stored
acro■s
in Spanish Africa.
There have been reports that
tbi■
seizure
bad already taken place, but Secretary of
State
Cordell Rull said today that be did not believe
this
was true.
further
Apparently, the seiz~re of the oil has gone no
than
plan~intentions,
with
the St~te
/\
Department giving Spain a brisk warning to let the
oil alone.
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Today in N&ples, a
Ill
~
'B
ado
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A.
•
conference
w
s held between
an
d
the seventy-ei
t year ol
philosopher, Benedetto roce.
They were conferring on
the possibility of gettin th six opposition parties t
enter
a
coalition cabinet,
with
Badoglio
as
Premier and
Croce as•
Vice-Premier.
They
say
the a~ed philosopher
who
himself
has belonged to the anti-Badoglio oppositio,
is now in favor of cooperation.
lie has assumed the role
of an
elder
statesman
in an attempt to harmonize.
Five
of
the six opposition parties, including the
Communists,
are inclined to go along, ~Aone exception
being - the
group
in whi~b
Count
Sforza
is a
leader.
may stay
out
of the coalition that is likely
~
to be
orme
-
a
vernment that
will
- d • ~
power
A
A
until Rome has been captured and
Kin
Victor Emanuel
has
wi
hdra n from pub
l
ic
l
i
f
e,
a
he has pled ed.
In It
ly,
the
round fi hting wa
s
reporte
today
in nine words - so let's be content
with
those nine.
The Al~ied editerranean command states:- •our patrols
and artillery were active ~n all fronts.•
In the
air
- the usual series of bombing blo
s
against German
communications.
And
there are
indications that Budapest,
the
capital of Hungary,
•••
assailed
by
long range bombers again
bci ■J,
as
it
was yesterday.
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