'T O ilf L. T. _-_MllOCO^__ M0i££Ix_MAY_l8j._1242. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Tonight's news from Russia is what you the outskirts of Kharkovbut^ the Germans down in the IT Crimea, are in Kerch\ Naturally, the reports from Moscow are making the most of the Kharkov news, a I tremendous army of nearly a million fighting men^ rushing through blazing villages, pushing ahead over , . . II mieht call The Fed Army is in l| ^ A ' ' roads and over fields that are littered with the bodies of dead Germans.'P"They announce officially tnat they | have retaken more than three hundred villages, towns I and settlements from the Nazis, many of them set afire I Broxicn German lankSj by the Germans when they ielt. Bro..ea ^ line theRussian advance. They go so guns and equipment line /r /. LEAD - ? far as to claim that Hitler’s divisions along. Kharkov 4 are literally broken^ and^ they say tha-t the Nazis made a desperate attempt to stop the rout by dropping parachute troops behind thei:50viet line. But the parachutists were . . _______________ _ 1 A A picked off by sharpshooters before they even reached the ground. This was the seventh day of Marshal Timoshenko’s attack on Kharkov, and the boviet high command claims the big city of factories is being encircled. Parts of it have been set in flames by cannon fire. Officially, the Russians proclaim that they have forged ahead more than forty miles y ‘iiB? blee4,ed-t,he •wey-^«r-trhe4^•-^H^eeps-w-i--t^ a fleet of more than two thousand tanks^ Some.of them are brand new fifty-ton land battleships, some of them American triple j turret tanks, and there are whole squadrons of StormovikVci^^i^.' olanes. LEAD - ihe Nazis maice light of that Russian communique. ] e i Soviet attacks which they admit have been heavy. ! And the^ say they destroyed no fewer' than three hundred ^ and twenty-four of those Russian tanks in the Battle of Kharkov. But the principal Nazi crowing is on the subject | of Kerch. There they say the remnant of the dsfsztsc 7 defeated Red Army is threatened with annhilation. Russians admit they are ftaking a last stand on the shore of the Strait that separates the Kerch peninsula from the Caucasus. London has reports that the Nazis have nearly all of Kerch but a fierce battle is raging A ^ A in the streets cf the city* A /T /• ■aitMMiriiiii PBncL.5IISMI There was a running sea battle in the waters off the southwest coast of Norway last nighty quit»e-aa exoit-in-r^—a^ffei:r^ The center of it^wa# Hitler* formidable ten thousand ton cruiser, the much talked about PBINCF EUGENE. T-he~crutseririir fine of the most important units of Hitler's Navy, and^^has-hean object of keenpi^ attention from the Royal Air Force. The last time we heard of her was on that sensational the English Channel with the SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU. The PRINCE EUGENE was badly damaged by 4 a torpedo from a British submarine and had to take refuse in the Norwegisn port of Trondheim j ^ ^ Last night she was trying to escape^ moving xa south with an escort of four des-troyers. E./'..F. bombers came unon her and that brought the running fight through' those northern water^^JHi'he British hit the PRINCE EUGEN^ with two aerial torped oes ,^probably-^ven^ three . pglNCE^EUGENE - 2 Meanwhile, a squad of^Hudson bombers attacked the destroyers The British Air Ministry admits that nine British planes were shot down and five German fighters. The Air Ministry declares that a photograph of the PRINCE EUGENE after the fight, shows her to have been crippled^, so badly that she will be in drydock for many months. li I t li HOLLAND American newspapermens who have reached Lisbon after being interned in Germany, declare that no fewer hundred than four thousand people in Europe have been shot by Nazi firing squads. And that Hitler and his bandits have taken from the defeated countried cash and goods to the value of thirty-six billions of dollars. That for instance, the Nazis now own forty-nine percent of the stock of all industries in France. QFFEIiSIVE^ A story from Y/ashin^ton corroborates the remarks made last night by Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Privy Seal of the British Cabinet. On Saturday night, Prime Minister Churchill told Britain that, though we have not yet topped the ridge that separates us from the road to victory, the ridge is in sight. Cripps VWvJ— s announced that the time is at hand when we must prepare to take the offensive. The story from Washington reports that we,'' the United Statds, are approaching the date for a major offensive, especially against the Japanese in the Pacific. A.E.F^ Here*s a late communique from the War Department! fresh off the wire. Irt is erf uai'ticulaT—l7itei'eaL—tn p.t.ix»a>-^ir’~t?raT story fr^m fasHington. One of the largest convoys that ever crossed the Atlantic Ocean has just made a successful landing in northern Ireland. Thousands upon thousands of American doughboys have been disembarked at a port in northern Ireland. /It is described as bein^ far and away thb largest contingent from ipc the United States that was ever landed in the British Isles. They say the convoy was quite the biggest ever seen on any ocean throughout this entire war. It brought not only soldiers but equipment, both light and heavy. | i -i The Yanks took with them tanks, trucks, jeeps, gun^ | i carriers, and even heavy guns. The War Department gave ( no figure, but admitted that the number of troops is substantially larger than any previous contingents and that it includes tank units. u if BURMA Fairly cheerful nei^s about Burma continues to in come out of Chungking -- headquarters of Chiang Kai-shecI The Chinese claim their forces have completely annihilated what was left of that Japanese mobile column that advanced into China north of the Bqrma Road. The Chinese, they say, wiped the Japanese out in a five-day battle forty miles inside the frontier of Yunnan. East of that battleline on the Burma Road, the Chinese are holding out agaiiis t constant and heavy along attacks by the Japanesesixaiig the Mekong River. They also maintain that they are still resisting on the Salween River. The leaders of the Chinese are said to be much encouraged by their victories in western Yunnan, but they are anxious about Kungming, the terminus of the Burma Road. They are waiting for a Japanese attack there at any moment. Tokyo today claims however that the Japanese along the Chindwin River are only three and a half y. miles from the frontier of India, but the Britishdenj'iti /T /. FLIERS From Australia we have a vivid account of a fight | \ between American fliers and a flight of Japanese Navy | Zero fighters. The American force consisted of three bombers and the men at the controls were. rellow®/'named A Hap Jolly, Bud Flint and George Kahle. Hap Jolly, the oldest of the three, is twenty-fiv^ They were trying to carry out a raid on Japanese ships in the harbor of Rabaul in New Britain. But before they could reach their objective, seventeen enemy fighters up to attack them. Pilot Hap Jolly used these words in describing the d0gfight that occurred when one Zero A flew betv.'een Jolly*s bomber and George Kahle^s.- Streaks of tracer bulletg from both bombers riddled the Jap, and two great columns of black smoke squirted from both sides of his engine as he spun down to the sea. wly gunner. continues Hap Jolly, "then caught another Zero, which turned over. I saw the p ilot ts.rbody crash into the sea FLIERS - 2 ?^ith his parachute unopened.’’ Meanwhile, three more Zeros were bagged by the gunner on the American ship piloted by twenty-two year old Bud Flint. ^ in two minutes the Americans had five Japanese planes. George Kahle then added this to the description: "My co-pilot, Carl King, had a toothbrush in his mouth -- don’t ask me i^^hy. When we started to fight, he forgot to take it out, and it was the funniest thing watching him during the action, trying excitedly to point out the Japs -- with his mouth full of bristle." Kahl had a Greek bombardier named Lou Skeadus;===Aird-:riio got so excited tna-t he started to ^ (L a ,-kLU: It: shout instructions in Greek. Kahle A ^ "Lou got our sixth victim in three minutes, then his guns caught fire and the plane was full of smoke. Tfte inter-phones were full of a mUxture of Greek and broken English.” / / FLIEBS - 3 When the air battle was ali over, seven out of seventeen Jap Zero planes had been destroyed. All of the American planes got back to their base. r / / ' BULKLEY_ The Navy's motor torpedo boats of the kind used i by Lieutenant John Bulkley, are one of the most i • f » i effective craft ever built in any country. They impressecj the Japanese in such fashion that Tokyo broadcast a ^ statement that America has developed a nev/ secret weapon, i "a monster with flapping wings which makes a lot of noise I and fires torpedoes in all directions. This came out at a conference betY/een reporters and the famous Lieutenant John Bulkley himself. He showed A the newspapermen a letter he had received from the Chief of Staff,t Bear Admiral Rockv;ell, shortly after his motor boat had shot down five dive bombers. Tne letter read:- "Dear Bulkley:- I really think your gang is petting too tough. The latest report is that three dive A . . . bombers were seen over Marrivals Mountain in Batan, A chased by a motor torpedo boat." And then it adds: ®on't you think that i IS carrying this war ^ Lit too far!” BULITLEY - 2 The spectacular Lieutenant Explained that the boats made such a noise that the Japanese mistook the roaring motors for airplanes, hg went on to relate that [ during his raid on Subic, the ‘first time those M.T.B's were mentioned, the Japanese batteries on shore kept up a constant fire. ”But,” said Bulkley, "they kept firing over our heads and over each other. And they must have been hitting each other because they kept geuting madder and madder and shooting faster and faster." ( The P.T. boats, as they are called, are remarkably seav/orthy even in the stormiest waves That was proved when General Douglas MacArthur was leaving the Philippines for Australia ) And Bulkley added that the Japanese did not ^et a single direct hit on any of the torpedo boats in the Philippines with anything larger than a machine gune 1 PANAMA Uncle Sam take over the defense installations of the Republic of Panama. This be done by peaceful and friendly arranfement. agreement has been signe but has to be ratified by Congress and by the N^ionU Assembly of the Republic of Panama.^ Army to occupy and develope defense areas in Panama} a« gun emplacements, airp'lane detector stations, bombing ranges and auxiliary airfields. The most important of these is one some eighty miles to the southwest of the Canal. The purpose of^i "uxje » ^ ■ ii|^ liii TTTrbr it p secure /JU- gasolink . The problem of oil and gasoline in the Eastern states took on a new today when President Roosevelt A ^ himself took a hand in it. He brought it up at the weekly conference with leaders of Congress at the White House this morning. has ordered a completely new study of the situation. Some of the.congressional leaders brought up apain the proposal to build pipelines across the continent from the oilfields. A year ago, that project was all set, plans made, money subscribed and everything, j J2_ with the approval of Oil Coordinator Ickes. But that ! idea was killed by the Office of Production Management because it would have required attaatim* too much steel. Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the Democratic leader, told report^oday, after the White House conference, that V. ‘Kaon iven to understand there is 1 congressmen had been gi a lot of idle pipe in the oil districts of the southwest Ij i GAbOLiriE - 2 v/hich could be used for a pipeline, and that pipes txkRH could be taken from existing lines'which are not so necessary and used for this monster line to the east Another proposal for relieving the shortage is th^ use of large numbers of inland waterway barges. Tliat A revives the proposal to dig the barge canal across Florida. The Rivers and Harbors i;ommittee of the House today began discussing a bill to authorize that canal @^^^'cr?s#*^one of the schemes proposed could be put into action immediately. It would take a year to build a pipeline, and nine months to build th^ barge canal. /1— \ \ Xi BASEBALL The most drastic effect of the new dim-out refutations in the East will be on baseball fans. ) No night baseball is—tUe--resa 1 hat^^in any towns or cities near the Atlantic coast. And-that In spite of what Pres ident^'^oosevelt said a few months ago. Police Commissioner -Lewrt Valentine of New York recently appointed a committee of five to study the whole question of lights. They examined the effects of the huge banks of floodlights used in baseball parks, the reflections from those floodlights on the clouds overhead. Their report was due today, and the result is an order from the Police Commissioner. Night baseball in New York City and the whole metropolitan area is out for the duration. 0nq«6-et4diF6tH-r the same ruling will be applied to all other cities and Hfxsm-all .smaliEE: towns any:.\vhere near the i^t©p close -enougfe~trO--4't~ tlT^ reflections from lighted ball parks upon the clouds can be seen from ships out at sea._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 7 r FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL These are thrilling days in American colleges and universities, thrilling because so many thousands of young men upon receiving their diplomas are going straight into our armed forces, 4 or into defense work. Within a short time they will be scattered all over the face of the earth, from the Mountains of Alaska to the Mountains of the Moon jungles of Equatorial South America to the almost unexplored tropical wilderness of North Australia, and from Iceland to Madagascar These young men are going out with high ideals, letermined to do their job -- the fighting end of it -- and then set about an even more difficult task of making this a^^etter world. I was reminded of this today in Lancaster, ^ n -^0+ TT-ranklin and Marshall College, where Pennsylvania, at iiran^j-ni FRASKLIH ANE MARSHALL - 2 they have just installed Theodore Distler as the new President, at the One hundred and Fifty- fifth commencement of this institution that goes back to the days of Benjamin Franklin and John Marshall. An impressive part of their final ceremony is the handing of a torch down the rows of graduates from one young man to another, as a reminder of the motto of their college, a reminder that goes appropriately with those two names, Franklin And Marshall. The motto is Lux et lix -- light and law And now Hugh how about a little light from you? Let me hand you our Sunoco torch?