.
,
.
..
,
.
J~J.
-
'
J
I
o
n n he
r
or
ts
o
y
that T3Ul
a
r
ia
was askin for
terms
o
pe
oe
-
t
e .. a
lllte net.ion
1n
qu
1r1n
or
the
:i
nlted
:
tates and
,reat
r1t
a
1n on
the ubject
or
n
r~is ice.
These
advices
are not
con
ir-ued, but
emanate from
w"lat
ondon
calls
-
"usually
reliable
sou
rce .~
hey o
n•t ~ake
/\
olear
wet
er
1Ul
_
aria as
made
a formal
a
preach
t
o
the Allies, or
whether
the
reelers
ror
a separate peace
are
or
tbe unorr1 ial ort, som~body
meetin somebody
else,
with
ord
passed alon~.
The
':3ul
arian
rumor is accompanied
by
a
roreoast
that
tho•
/1,
otbe"
ate111te countries,
-un
ary and
umania, are likely to follow
et
ll,.
And
such
a
suit -
ir ul
aria
should
try
to
out or the
w~.
<'evelopment
:ni~t
""Y
well mean t e break-up of the whole
azi
position in
Southeastern
i'.urope.
tar
to
t
e
orth,
.
,atellite.
tinland
as,
of
course,
already
moved
for a
separate peace. And toni ht in
L
ondon we
are
told that
t
h
e term
s
proposed
by
oscow have been okayed
by
,reat
~r1ta1n.
Accordin
to/\ ritish
-
ovlet alliance,
,
osoow han
ed
the tenns to
L
on on
in advance, and the
ritis
g
o
v
ern
~
ent
in
turn
p
assed them
alon
o
anada nd
the
o
rd
inlona.
Th
feelin
in
Lon
on
toni
~twas that
Pinland
will
aooept the
condition
.
,
and
will
take action
ror
a se
arate
peace
in
the
near
tutu re.
-0-
ia
th
e
oviets ave scored
ano
ther
break-tbrou
h,
wh
i
c
has
taken them
fo
r
a new
a
dva
n
ce into
.
orth
e
rn
~
stonia.
R
ed
Army
troops
rorced
a
passa
of
the
arva
river on a rront or twen
rive
miles,
and
drove
t
or
fifteen
iles
into
thl°3altlo
state.
I
At Pskov,
the
ussians
h
ave
broken
orthern
and
E
astern
suburbs or
the
city,-
.....a=1a
t
·:
:ord,~London,
.a.J~
/
\
/)
''-
..,.,,,,
-the
Germans
are
tryin
garrison
at Pskov, using
trucks
ror
the
purpose
or trucks which were bombe4
by
Soviet
planes.
Moscow
reports
that
the
Southern
-;
nd or the
German front 1•
~
in rast retreat, a retreat
that
is turning into a rout - with the
Russians adYancing
so
swiftly
that the
Germans
oan•t
get
their hea
equip•nt away and are
blowin
it up or
throwing
it
into
marshes
and
l
akes
.
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I
There
wAs
n'
t m
oh
aotion
in the
air
ove
r
1
azi Germany
today,
ba weather h
vin
•
lo e
in on the continent. This kept the
heavy
bombe~ on
the
roun
d
,
and
the on
J.
y ora
s
durln~
the
past
twenty-tour
hours
were
'!18
e
b:,
~ri
tisn
11
ht
~~
osoequito bo
mb
ers
,
last
ni
g
ht.
~
H4
lfk/\obJectives in
Western
ermany.
I
Today's l
u
ll was accompanied by
sn
explanatlo.,,r
3rit1ah
~
A
.,
erican
state
y
in
the
current
war o~ air ••
The
idea
is twot'old!-
shoot
d
own eYery erman plane
that
can be found in the skies oftr
-~-
!urope and
at
the
same time keep
on bombing the azi tighter~plants.
This latter obJectiv is
being
accomplished by the tremendous
aer1•
or assaults agains
t
aircraft manufacturing centers, and it
is bellen<
that the German
pro uction or
tighter
planes has
been
badly oripple4.
Nevertheless,
the azis are known to
have a large
number o r ~
air
s
~
uad
ron
s
in reserve, anj tbese
must
be knocked out as well as
t
he plants
that manufacture
new
planes. ttenoe, there has
been a
revision
or
allied
pians
f
or sky battle.
P
reviously t
h
e bi bomben-
for
mat
io
n
s
wer
~
ordered
to avoi
d
enemy fighters
if
n
otsslble.
AIR
'
,
'I
2
but now
e
hear t
~
e
are
in~
r c ed to close with
the ~erman planes
h
neve
s
ible - s
_
ek
them out.
eat
t~em
down. The
azis
have
Jl-
ot
to
appear and
ive battle, beoa se
the
Allied
s\ategy
is to bomb
t rgets
which
the
,er-nan 11ir
rorce
cannot
leave undefended - and
thereby rorce the az1 plane
into action.
-0-
y
n
t~e
o
n
ach
,
the
az1
e
an the
day
with big ideas
lar
e ambition
nd
ejor
strate
ies -
ut
these
toni ht seem to
be
11
s
ed up.
h
tJ.er
ans tt
eked
et awn, arter flamin artillery fires
durin
t
e
revious
hours
or
arknese.
,asses
of
tanks and intantry
lun~ed forward, n
it was aoparent
that ~ltler•s
men
were
starting
another
all-out assault - t•eir
third
reat
attempt
to
knock out the
beachhead.
They
used not only
their normal roroes
ot
massed
and
thun4er1D
artillery. rumbling fleets
ot
tanks and swarms
ot
advancing
intantry
- these
on
a
large
and
formidable
soel~ 1hey also
had
something el
a
seoret weapon
-
at least it
had
been
seoret heretofore on the
beachhead,
though the
Russians had raced it in action.
The
secret
weapon ls
a t
nk without a crew, a SD18ll, low slung tank
guided
by
wireless. It carries
a
thousand
pound
explosive c arge, which is
detonated
by
remote
·ontrol.
And
so,
ine effect,
the
tank-without-
a
crew
amounts
·
to
a
rumbling
2
•
~,...._con ra tion 1
·
n
action - "the
ettle
so rried across
t
e
eetl
~
n
t
o
ay
a
whole swarm
ot
~
~ e a o h h e a d , ~
t,
rrlved
t
~
ill-
stron
ointe.
I
Ho¥
did
the
secret
weapon
assault
u1ake
out
?
~t tailed.
Allie
artillery
opened up on the era ling beetles, and
promptly
knocked fourteen
or t'1e31 out -
while oth rs railed to keep oing.-
4pparent
y
because or
some
mechanical
failure.
o the
9e•tles
were
a washout.
In fact "washout" is
exactly
the
expression
to
apply to toda1••
launchin or what
appeared
to
be
the third aJor 1erman offensive
again
t
the beachhead ...
er~an, columns were stopped
by
Allied
uns, and in the afternoon
were
malclng new attacks,
the
battle still
ragln
violently - when the
heavens
opened,
and out
ot
dark clouds
poured a
·elugej
- i n - ~ - & t i t : = H 1 . a & t o r m q _
which put an
)'\CLµ
end to tbe~orren ive.
he downpour was so
violent
th~t the German
attack wee
swamped
ln water end
mud,
and
the ti hting
came vtrtualiy
as~
st11. T
whol
thin wash~d out.
it's
the
~
•
ory tote soutb,
on the Cassino tr n~,
only
ore
so.
There
t
ey
t)8ve
been
havin
_
five
days
or violent rains
an
today
the
water
ra ed in wh
t
the news
d
i
sp
atch ealls - tlasb
r10
s. oth the Gar iliano
end
the
Rapido
rivers surged over their
banks - and the war was washed out
tor the day.
The communi
ation
lines
or
both
sides
were daYastated
by
tloo in waters. ~wirlin rivulets
gushed
across A~erican built
dirt r,osds
and
cut them into a chaos
or mud. At the same time, tbe
heayY
rein swept oasoades or so
gy
dirt down tho
mountainside• anc!
/
on to the roads.
All
day
long
American
troope
labored with shQYele
•nd bUckets,
trying to
ol•ar
the
roadwa¥s - eoldiera toiling in the
/
P&in
ad
drenched
to the skin.
,
..
It was
st111
worse in
the
mountains
behind
Cassino,
w.1ere
floods down
the.
lopes
swept
away the shelters in wnicb the Oi's
.
were huddled
or
protection
from
the
rain.
And laugh
provoking
si
hts
were
seen
as
bedrag
led soldiers
_
lore.wled
end slid
down the
~
ountainside,
tryin
~
to
I
·
a
.
le
1 l
d
es
e1J
·
a
,
ombed
agein. -- That bit
or aoitic
1
n
-
:nade :ne1nor
-
ble
by
the
·
eroism of tb.
,
e 'arin es who
etended
it
against
t
e
,
a
.
panese in early
in
he
war •
.
ow
Wake
is an
.
ene
:
my st
-
ron
,
old and
we are
bitting
it
hard.
Today's
avy
bulletin from
'1ash'1ngton
tells
bow giant
liberator■
....
delivered a
low level attack - so low level that the monst
.
er
plane■
did
irtually
a job
or
hed
e-ho pin•
sklmmin
over the
J"apen•••
installations and bom
.
bing
:
them to wreckage.
And
~
at
t
e
same time,
Army
e.n4
avy
fliers
hit three
enemy
bases at the
!aatern end
.
or
the
Marshall
islands.
In
the
outbWest
Pacific
we
have D10re
details
about
the
ewest American oon uest
in that area, the sel
.
zure or t'he Admi
·
ralty
lA ,
~
-
I
ialan
s.
The
Job was
done
by
~
<
N'iltM
Canlrrmen,
who
swapped
their horses
ror
a,ssault
boats.
There was 11 ttle
reaiste
·
noe
at tlrs,.
ilkinson wbo was in the
land in , sta.ted
.
that
,
only
three
shells were fired
by
the J'apa •
three
.
sbel
ls
and a few
soat
·
t red
builets.
However,
on
"
e
tbe
·w
a:uphibious
oavalrrnen
-
ot ashore.
the
enemy
mistanoe
greAstitfer,
the:v
·
id
a
lot o~
shootin~.
but the A erioan
oroes
oundec!
'
ahea4.
~
,
I
..
2
·
i
ht
hour
ter, l"le
.
neral aoArt
.
ur lan
d
ed at the soene
ot
action
MM1
by
-
t'ti
:t
tJae
only a
·
ew -&-RQte oou.1
heeFd
-0-
..
ro
he
lr
t
1
]
n
1-1
t
11
of stron
Jap
counter
a
k
.
•
wer
r
l le
•
The
ene
y
trle
to
recapture
D
ir
1
l
iz
by
rl
n
1rr1
lds
bein
al~ys
number one ob
e
tlve
•
l t
the
nlted tates anlr
en,
whose
OOr
A
are
'Ue
ani
ed)
eat
off
ell
assault8.
-0•
R
ABAUL
Toni
g
ht••
heYe
an
explanation
or
the detenseleAs condition r6
the onoe reat
.
apanese
b
ase at
R
abaul. The word from the ~outhw11t•
Paoitic
is that the aps began to move their squadrons
ot
tighter
planes trom
Rabaul
at the time the American task roroe burled
it■
planes against
Truk.
In other
word ■,
the
•
r4r
Kaetern enny n1et1 hie
sty roroes in the central Baoitic, where American task tore•• aD4
that 1n the
last el ht conseouti•• days or American air
blow ■
agalnal
Rabaul, there has been no apene11 aerial reslatanoe. And the
reaull
ot
the uaoppo1ed
bo■blng
ls
what
a report t'roa outh Paoltio head-
quarter• d11oribea as - "A picture or smoldering deYastation.•
That'•
what qabaul is like now.
--
-0-
A
RG
E
NT
INA
Argentina had another political reTOlt today,Aan attempte4
reYolution
that
didn't
get anywhere.
Thi
s
is
reported
by
the go-nrn-
m,nt
ot
Actin
g P
resident
~
delmlro l'arrell. The new ln1urrecti
~
n1117
movement was headed, as mig
h
t be expected,
by an army
ottioer -
Lieutenant Colonel Duco. According to the gonnaent story
troa
81100
Aires, the Lieutenant Colonel tried to rally otber otttoer•
tor
a
•rob
against the to•ermaent,
but
they retuaed to haft an,tblDg to
do with the s
o
he•• And the reYolt was 1upprsaed witb011t tbe ttrln1
ot
a
shot.
The
go
•ernment announced that all ls quiet in Argentina,
although earlier reports indicated that th• nwlutlonary
mo•e-t
was seething in the outlying sections
ot
the country.
'l'hese
ftrlter
reports stated that
L
t. Col. Duoo bad muatered three thousand troop•
ln
his etrort to overthrow the regime or
ictlng,-President rarrell.
Also - t
h
at the
p
urpoee or the revolt was to return rormer President
R
amirez to power -
R
amirez
having
been
overthrown
•rParrell•
fd
1ourae R111111rez h1••lf had overthrown the previous President
bJ
AR
El T
INA
2
r
military in
s
rreotion~
....
LA'\
~~
o\.A-1..,,."'
All
these
political
upheaYele/\aN
tied in with queatlons
or.
war, azi
elements
and
the
cause
or
the n1te4
Nation• -
not
torget-
ting
the
old tradition
ot
Latin
American reYolutlona.
' -
---...:
~:...i
-0-
A 1 te
dispatch
identities the would-M revolutionary, Liea,.
Col,
Duco,
as a
fi'ltlre well
known in Argentine sports •• Pootball
in
particular. ~e
was
the
.resident
or a
professional
football olub,
and
was
such
a
peppery
leader
that
he
beitme
known as --
The "Terrible
,.
tempered
l!r.
Bang.~ One afternoon back
in
1940 h•
didn't
like
the
decision
that
a reteree made against his team, in tact be
was so
furious t,at he
punched
the reteree in the nose. That oreate4 a
sensation in Argentina, and the Terrible Tempered
Mr.
Bang•••
pan-
lshed by being
en
led to
an army
pon
in
•114
and
de ■olate
Pataanl••
11111
'low
apparently, he lost h1a
tem!'l9
r
again --
and tide
tl■e
he
tried
to start a
revolution,
whioh
can be a more aerloae
•tter in
Latln
America that punching a football
reteree
ln
the
nose.·
-o-
Two
na~es
were
entered
1n
two state
p
r1mar1ea today,
nal"llea
()...
t
st he
n.Are
1nlscent rin
g
ot
nineteen rorty --
RooseYelt
and
~
llltle
The
?resident's
name
was put in the
~
isconsln primary today -
entered by the
Chair.nan
or
t
he
state Democratic party.
Under
~
laoo
n
sin
law, the
consent
or
the residential candid•
~
• la not
nee4e
tor
primary filing.
So
today's
eYent has no
bearing
on wh•ther or
not
P
resident
RooaeYelt
ffl&y
be
reoeptl•e
to
a
fourtb
tftrm nominatlaa.
illkie•s
name was
put
into the ebraaka
primarr, petltlaaa
tiled
1n bis
behalf.
·,1111de,
of course, is
openly
seeking
the
nollination, and
the tossing or
his hat
into the
N
ebraska
ring
pate
him
in
competition with
Lieutenant
Commander
Stassen, romer
OO•er-
ner
or
''inneaota.
~
tassen
was
already
in
the
.
ebraaka
oompetition,
and
Willkie•s
entrance makes
it a
bead-on clash.
-0-
..,
I
-;
,
S•'•~~wn
~
Louisiana
••l!I
t••
elwt'MIL.,
we
r1n4 that
"swing" is an
appropriate
word.
The
victor ot
the race
tor
OOYernor
is
a
""1ke
3ox
composer,
whose
business it
has
been to concoct
nolq
POUTIIS
2
ballade or azz and
in
,
.
to
e
y's
oount g1Yes
J'uke lJC>x candidate
~
Jimmy
davis
a
deoi ■ lYe
_,,,..
,overnor•s
oha1r.
Re beat
out
the powertul
polltloal
machine
tbat
hu
been
V
centered lD
R••
Orleans
•••r alnoe the 4aye
ot
Baer
long,
and
tba
campalfPl la described aa one
ot
tbe
blttere■t
ln Loulslua h1ato17,
with
all aorta
or
punohlDg and olawlng - and nlngiDI•
-<>-
Today in
P
ennsylnnia, a city
ha
d
a oelebration, and tbl
oa
use
or
t
h
e festivity
w
as
the elimination or
th•
ktnd or thing
that
made
the
town ruoua.
,or
many
years
-
when
you
happened
to
mention
Johnstown,
people
thought or
the
J
ohnstown
flood •
.n.
taot,
the
id . .
ot ln•datlng water
was
90
oonneoted wltb the
na•
ot
the
buy
son
ooal and
steel center, that
people
and
1ndustr1•
were dl•oourapt
rrom moving there. But now that's all a thing or the
pa•t,
with tlle
olty today celebrating - •r1ood•tree
Johnstown.•
~
'!'he hlatorl~
!,lood
occurred
ln
flghteen
!lgbty-~ln•,
wll■a
•
da
brob
and twnty-three-buDdre4
llvea
were
lo1t.
Tb•n,1191:llt
la
_!ineteen
!hirtJ-,!lZ
the deluge o . . .
again -
with no wboleaale
lo•
ot
llte; but., with huge
damage
to
property.
That
wae
th•
turn1ng
-r~~~
point. ~•
,ia.
•••9'•de
to
rid the
city
ot
the
dan
g
er
ot
tloo4•,
~
~
~
~.
/\Array
en
g
ineers
undertook the
Job
ot oonquering
the
deluge -
by
~
widenin
g
,
d
eepening and banking th•
two
streams
that
Join in
ti.
beart
or
the
town.
The
huge work baa now been oomplete4, and tatay
C<
,,
the
celebration
was
on - tlood-rre~
.
ohnstown.
-
,,.
--
1
\
Z
1
~
Toni
gh
t
t
b.
e
nn
y iden
t
iried the tw
o s
ol
d
iers wbo paid a
vi
1
t
to
.
T
o
.
hn
L
.
L
ewi
s
.
nd
p
ro
t
ested about
strike
s
. There ls some
di
ree
~
ent
about
w
ha
t hap
p
ened when
t
he two aervi
e
e
m
en
from
over
5
ea
s
re
p
r
o
ched the hea
or
the ine orkera
union.
One of the
soldiers said be
p
uncbect Lewis in the nose,
but Union
ottloiala
sa t
h
at the
two
sol
d
ier• were in tears --
nervously
overwroug11,.
T
h
e ar y t
c
>
nl
ht confirms
the
tact that both were A W
O
L,
atter having
been
overseas.
They
are members
or
the
Air Porces,
and
an
alr toroe
spokesman said that one
was
Corporal Henry
Irantat
ot
Scbeneotady,
and
that
he
was
a
patient
iii
the New
Bngland
aeneral
hospital unti:l last
~
o•ember. The other servioe man who
re11onstrale4
with
-r
ohn
L
.
Lewis
was
Private
J"aoob
Ricotta, of Roobester,
anct be
was a oatient
in
.
the
N
ew En
g
land
Ti
ospital1
unt11
he went A
O L.
(2.,.J~-¼l.t ~
·
~
All
or
wtt:tch--1-eiwea
1 1 1 1 ~ ~ n g
.._.
,t9
visit
ot
the two soldiers
to
T
ohn
L.
Lewis,
1:n
which
lewis was or
wae
not
et
bow Hie
'd'ftlJ
Ioele allent tbf •8•·
-0-
Here's
story from overseas that
should
ser•e, I suppose.
s
lesson
or warnin or somethin. In~ land an unmarried
woman
has
beco~e
the mo her
ot uadru
lets.
This
has
e(cited much attention in Britain
as a
biological
(N\
pbenoae~'and
there ls a
od
deal
or
questioning
about
tbe tather
-- es ec.iall7 as be is descrl bed aa a
soldier,
natlonali
ty
not
mentioned in
the ~ritiab
--papers.
On this side
or
tbe water, however, the New York
Dally
ff8
identifies
the
presumably
oroud papa as an American
ergeant
troa
lttsbur b. He is said to
bave a wife
in
~
ittsburgh who
tor
eome
while ~ad known about
her husband's
romance in~
land. e are told
't~
t!ls
he
a Iced
her for e divorce,
but
she r'!lt'used on reli ious
grounds.
she we.s tol.
th~t
a child
was
expec'ted -- though she could hardly
expect
1uadruplets.
That
l)ein
_
,
the
bei ht
or
the
unexpected
tor a
mother -- ~specially
un11Brried.