- - - --- r.1. _ ~ - !).. ... 1..,, "?car.~ '""' ,I J • The l a t e s t a b t th ou e c o nferences of the Bi g F ou r is a story from London, out l ining one particular i d e a th a t St a lin is said to be p repared to lay before Churchil l an d Roosevelt. It won't be of so ■ uch inter e st to Chian g Iai-shek, becau s e it concerns the . uest i on of wh a t t o do about Germany after the war - ~ 4:::/t;., ............ a q uestion th a t is being hotly debated far and wide. ~ British familiar with Soviet policy, declare that • Stalin will lay before Churchill and Roosevelt two tenets, in which he believes? - One Flt that Nazi @ermany systeamatically set I out to kill off the manpower of conquered lands - such as Poland, Fr a nce, Czechoslova ia, Russia - the Nazi idea being to re d uc e the number 1 men in those countries. 1 . c o ntends th a t the Germans Se condly, St a 1n hou ld th e y lo se the war, they can build b e lieve ~ that a fighting p o p ul a tion in anoth e r ten or fifteen y e ra, whil th ir former enemies are still eakened from the destruction of life inflicted on them. So the Stalin plan is to block that idea, and keep the Germans from utilizing their manpower for another onslaught. How to do that? By conscripting millions of Ger m ns for forced labor - make them work for years to rebuild the huge areas that Hitler has devastated~London believes that Stalin, in planning the reconstruction of. the ruined sections of Russia, ~ ~ is prepared to mak~• b"Jt demand for German manpower ~~ 7P as labor - several million~robably. The argument is that it '.snot only just for Germany to repair what Ger w any wr c ed, but al~o the taking away of millions of youn men ould prevent the Germans from building up an army a in, an wo uld tend to deNazify those young G t t l ·th other peoples' er ans - brin them in con ac .~~-. - - ~ id e a ~ , n d in d o ctr in ate them a a inst the B it 1 er ~ -f!'TJ • Such, we a ! e told, is what Stalin hes to say about the pos -w. handling of Ger any, what he has to tell the American President and British Prime Minister --- at th bi g meeting hich has been surrounded by so much ~ secrecy, rum ors an speculation. We 11, + J IL, the is o t - how Churchill, Roosevelt and Chiang Iai-shek had a long series of conferences in Egypt, and how the three thereu on left the and of the Nile, going to meet Stalin) -t;&~t>w..J""f>~ Tae ~i ~ aee1~b is ua~ i~»11-e~5 s- 1 ~· e.~e~trrt t:"t --t+N •• 8'e e-e NL.l.leuJ..;i;t,.,,r--1P~Pll-ii~ma...e~ll~t~1P!1 b;ACJt~. etit!t=l61iNDilli eaa:dbC1CIC:Jt;:::m11?l=..._ ' ~ ,Seaerali&simo 0hiaag !al seek t:ai a. rung eePiea , e , 8-QRfa1eaaee3 iB Egyp\, And tsae ta»ee leeder1 are BOY - ea ikeir way to ■ ee:t. Bo'Yie+, Mar.!w.l-Sta}:i.a. This story has been brewing for days, but ' xi could not be released. The enemy radio gave us plenty of intimations, but nothing official could be stated from the Allied side. The break came today when Reuters, the great British news agency, disclosed the story. And later American short wave stations, broadcasting to France~n the ·rrench language, confirmed the acco~t. The American, British and Chinese meeting was held in C a iro and vicinity. At one of the conferences " lt Churchill and Chiang Iai-shek n messrs. R o ose v e , ■ in the sh dow of the Pyramids. Osin t e famous figure of speech uttered by Napoleon:- •Tw e nty centuries loo*o•n on them.• "J?the Chinese Generalissimo, who was accompanied by Madame Chiang1 ~ • • made the trip by plane all the way from distant China - the ancient land of Cathay,journeying to the equally ancient land of the Pharaohs. Priae inister Churc ill went by ship to Egypt. The Am er ican short wave account does not·state the mode of President Roosevelt's travel, but I suppose it can be assumer. that he flew by Trans-Atlantic plane. co FL_J£]; - t, . . . f1',.tplace for the second meeting is not stated in today'e official version, but Razi reports place it in Persia. Last nigh t rn h the rumor that the conference with Stalin wi l l be staged at the Irani a n capital, Teh°1-ab. So that's the oig secret that was rumored and and rerumored, talked aboutA gossiped about, with endless guesses and speculation! ROS IA ------- Toni~ht Mos ow announces anoth ~ r retreat Red Army in the sector in front of iev. Soviet troops have abandoned.t,he im p ortant rail junction of Iorosten. This com s as rather a surprise, bec a use previous re p orts during the day indicated that the Russians were on the offensive in the Iorosten area. However, the Nazis have been hurling pow~rful counter-attacks with ~ c f ' W eight tank divisions and more than a hundred and fifty thousand infantry. This has been going on ~ for two weeks, and now the Soviet high commandAordered the evacuation of Iorosten~ This is the second Number One stronghold that the Russians have abandoned to the Germ an counter-attac_s, the first having been that railroad center called Jitomir. The extent of the British break through along the e aster n coast of Italy is indicted by a statement from the front - that 4t&@fd Montgomery's long ran·ge artillery should soon be ab l e to shell the harbor of Pescara. TLat large port is twenty miles from the ~ p.-..,,:t- d"t- . a~~"BcZt-- •cal 1d1Ji1tcal pafltI'.iF iit=:tb~ British.A.-tAiru • •11f.port nt point of the news is that the Eighth Army push is rolling . on. "Our advance is continuing," stac.es today's communique. Wee 1epoxt ot Peaeara ia ef◄ 1• , ~ i f iP&t. pet, e e.ntl oweo e ii.ngly •• ef •l• I !Iv lh y a ie tee ieP ■ ia•a ef e. ~rea, latapal.r l!I bt .I:'" " i •iB ala \e Re ■ , .. le e:d ing ao1 oa . ,..- -- -· Army br eak-through was accomplished The Eighth b ttl e which is described as after a thirty-six hour a , "heavy and continuous." Havin s mashed across the ITALY - ---- San e ro Rive , Mon eomery 's troops _roceed ed to drive on for four miles , creating a wedge that deep, and twelve miles wide. As a result, the Adriatic end of the Nazi inter Line is described as - •shattered.• And we hear that the Eighth Army is not going to have the hole show - for Gener a Clark's Fifth Ar ■J ~ ~:t ;b '\1~t 0 1h ~ :::.~tatu tha the Fifth is about to sta g e its biggest offensive, and the slogan will be 'Free Rome or Bust.• One of the finest piec4s of good news fro■ Italy concerns the weather. Skies ha1e •~Paei i»~ tlie rains have ceased; wtl101F :1'a good for the ground soldiers} ca4 11wpi, perfect for the air forcea. So now once again Allied air power, with its huge superiority, has engaged in tactical gper tions on an im me nse . sc ale - blastin the enemy from the a ir in support of the Allied advan ce o n the earth. ?•t ""•-• Oil ------)•=,~i•&g~ tod a y lost both a royal cro n and an im pe ri a l era · n - a n c that brings to a ceremonial end a cou p le of ill-fated a d ventures. Q.... announcement from 1 a ~ les is that the Badoglio governaent bas deprived [ing VictofEmanuel of his titles ot Iing of Albania Eaperor of Ethiopia. he l atter ite• represents the final flickering out of Mussolini's dream of African Empire - Ethiopia conquered by the Fascists with all sorts of noisy triuapb and then lost by the ■ in the disasters of war. Albania represented a bit of loot that the one-time Duce picked up while Bitler was grabbing things in the days of Uunich.-irit wa::!art of iussolini's braggadocio to place the imperial crown of Cro•n of Albania on the brow of Ethiopia and the royal " his diminutive sover e i n, which was hardly m ore th an pilin diade m s on the ~ A W ~ little wooden 1?., 1 has shed those figureh ead .' No w Victor Emanue flimsy cro ns, and will be exceedingly content if he can remain simply and solely the Iing of Italy. Turn.,- Admiral Nimitz, Commander of the Pacific ~ fleet~issued a st tement concerning the American con uest of the Gilbert Islands. Be called it_ •the most d.fficult attack the United ltates has yet made in the Pa cific." A miral Nimitz has just returned to his headquarters at Pearl Barbor, after a trip ot ins ection to the newly captured islands. His comment on the difficulty of the operation is echoed by another dispatch, which gives a concensus of o p inion o f officers out there. They are jubilant about the seizure of the Gilberts, but they add grimly - •it's a l on way to Tokyo." Lieutenant ColonP.l Carlson, of C rlson's Raide rs, says the fighting on Tarawa atoll was the most savage he ever s w - and he, s ~a rine Cor s observer with the Chines e armies, witnessed th e ~hew r •• bet een the C inese most ferocious comba~ in ~ ~ Toni ht ' s disp a tch tells us that the an d t e J aps . ~----g11-. _. 1§_- ? con q u s of the Gi lbe rte ha persu ded many of the of icer s who led it, that the way to Tokyo is via the Chinese mainlan , and not by •ay of the mid-Pacific isl&nds . As they count our losses, in the face of the fierce Japane e resistance, they st r . to reflect that the nearer the islands are to Japan, the more heavily they will be fortified - particularly the larger islands. Today in Washington , Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox stated that our commanders knew bow heavy the Japanese resistance would be in the Gilberts, particularly a Tarawa. "e were not at all fooled by the enemy strength," he declared, and added: •Preparatiom for the attack were most thoroughgoin •" And he told of how for week before the landing, Tarawa was subject to a terrific a e rial bombin, and then, on the day of th e lan d in _ s, th ere was a n im m nse nav a l bomb ar ment. NE ' GUI NE --- · ------- , In New Guin a , the ustralians ~ have re a ched A place called are pushing for war , anc des cribed s an important trail c a ptureJ lot.ga without opposition,'lne Japs withdrawing. At the same time, Allied trJops pushing north of the captured town of Satelberg, w•z• are . about to attack the Japanese position off the shore - an enemy outpost called lareo. All this has to do with the Huon peninsula - and ho on e art h knows about the Huon peninsula? Mi hty few of us ever heard of the name until recently. -a.~r f eni'nsula is a strip of land thrust ?1e a ct is, th t he tow el rd th e is 1 n of New B'r i ta in. And on this latter is lan i s situated the Number One Ja p anese base in the Bouthwe t P ·1 i ic - R a baul. VA D E RI F T --------- Ton i ht the l e ather n ec ks have a new Commander V nde g rift of Gu ad alcanal. Th a t fighting General was na med to d Y to succeed Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb as Co m a nder o f the M a rine Corps. General Bolcoib zast:1■ retire s , h av in g v assed the a g e limit. Actually, he p assed the a e limit last A u g ust, and Lieutenant General k e x ~ n der A. Vandegrift would have taken his place some • w ~i le a o - exce p t for the call of war."11'Vandegrift of Guadalcanal was on his way·back to Washington, and had got as far as Honolulp - when he received orders to turn back and take command of the invasion of Bou ga inville. This because of the death of Major Gener a l Char l e s D. Barrett, who was killed in an acci d ent. S o the veteran Marine Cor p ~ fighter directed the successfu l lan d in g at Bougainvill e , aotl now, after the del a y, t akes over the job assi g ned to him - beco m i n o t he bi g bos s of t h e l eat h ern e ck~. V A1 DEGR IF.I - 2 --- --- I d o n ' t no w ho much at home Vande rift will be, dir e cti ng t i n g s from 1a shin g ton. a i e s · hat they call• 9 a fro n t l in m anw - a s was witnessed amply on Gua dal c ana l. One comrade in arms out in the Solomons re lat es: "He' d s t a n d there talking to an officer as th o u h h e e re at home - while the Jap machine guns wer e ban g ing all a round:• h a ve relates 'F (" ---- --- - • o n f u d i n o e pect an y ' election r turns to i h u n !e n u c :y th e y ha · a votin contest today o fill con r ion 1 ost eft vacan t by the death of a on , r s ·ma n . Polit i chl wisemen h r d their eye on this re gist red entucky e l ection b ecau e of the surprise~by the Blu e Gr s St a te hen it w ent Re p ub lica n in the statewide bellot·ng in November. So who won tod a y? It looks as if the lepublican ~ ..b. o. ~ e,..,. L 'J.ir swe p were continuing, for,~itn three.q~••tePa ef \he ~ ~ .. "1;;:~~e~a:;i!la• ~ &\. ~ ~ - f~!,'C,-1) ~ , 'ft- ei ~ majoP!by twent, fe'ir tihettnand tse fe11r\eea ~ t b ted because the ~heunnn~. ~ This is the more o e no Fourth Congres sional District , and elec tion i s in th e th t ordinarily is a Democratic stronghold. Yet toniglt~ p,elitsical oenerwer~ in Kents~e E) ae,,,.,,h , i a e A C:PAdi.!ii&ie ::oald wind PM»Pe lhAft elew@:n thousaue'I ·tot.es, · th a plurelii3' et;. up wt T he robl e m o · arm r ia g es is becoming acute in Chic ag o, w ith teen age g irls h a n g in g around in the cor r i d or s o f the m a rri ag e license bureau and asking passer by to hel p t h em ge t mar r ied. / Their purpose is to dodge " . the law in Illinois, accordin g towhicb g irls under eighteen cannot mar y ~ithout the consent of their parents. Their fathers and mothers refusing consent, the under-age youn g sters tty to enlist what they call --,roxy parents.w Th a t is, somebody who will pretend to be father ,«I. mother and go with the girl for a license., ~ though that, of course, • perjury. ,... To d ay Sidney Summerfield, c h ief clerk of the bureau, told of a case in which one mother telephoned five times in one day and be ge d that no license be is ued to her teen age dau g ht e r. But tpe daughter found a proxy parent, got a license, and was marri e d. ~ ~ µ e marriag e b~reau /\asked the city and county authorities to do somet . in g to stop the proxy p arent business, n d t a k to prosecute all adults who p o s a f t r and m o th rs . cour t &en a the old lsifying ' 1,1\ th e of he wa and •~uriel want to stay marrie of and ~ow the judge has lr om a ,, I oy the only thing that DIVORCE ---------- A si li ~h t o n the po ss ibilit ies of married li e is i v e n t us in a story from Los An g eles, where · r s . a r ret Weaver is suin g her husband for divorce. Hubby wa s je a lous. Wh y? Bec a use w hen wifie came home a t n i ht by stre · t car, the motorman al wa ys clanged the the street car bell. W ifi e , it a pears, worked on a night shift, while hubby's occupation was such th a t he was always at home when sher turned from work. She took the same street car all the tlme, and the motorman was a friendly ~') soul. - He g ot to k now her, and when she got off he'd keep the street car w a iting for a minute or two. "Th e motorman us e d to wait," she explains, " h d k t t W hen I got to the wile I ran down the ar s ree • Street "I'd ,vave, and he'd ring the l i g ht," sh e ad ds, bell." An v r night hubby he a rd the bell, which made him je lous and w e all know th~t jealousy can le d to tr g ic r ults. Wifie st~tes that hubby was 80 A4-<¼~~-8,c1Jli, haunted by the green eyed monster 1 ,that one time he trie to h · her i th a golf club, but she ducked and l counte ed with a right swing. That was bad -- for her. Becaus e he bro e her hand on his jaw. And all because every night the motorman rang the bell, s ing - So Long ii;;;"-N.~~/ ~ -ec.&.q ~ {\;;71&~ I