soB S 1fKU T N:t f.l - ~ - ~- ~~,''J'IS:1~ . The latest ne; t i c is a surpri e . Ri« lJ fro ~ - ~ e 'e·tern Front toni g ht - ':> i 2 i. of the Rhine and an a vance beyon almo s t no op p osition. the e t bank o that river with L et ... e , 1 e v e r , t t t is , in _ c o s i n 0 s be I a c .. on l i h y troops of Gen e 1 P a t ton' Thi r r y. Th e y 6 ot acro 8 the Rhine in s saul bo ts in r i - 1 .., 0 · 1 t reaf t e r pushe inl a n with t he Gr c-. m e ely tryi z to 5 e t away, O'"' - ur n e 1 g . T i · · Patton Third . y f rorrtL,as not been re . rded .,- in the ne • s o to ay s the . , ect h a t r e ally counts. In fact, the almCBt unop o ... rive across the R ine o cc 1J rs at a 1 ace that e e s , a cc or a i n 0 t o the n e ' ~ t 1 J I to be l a tively u 1 im ort a nt ) 9'ec a u e -6 all focu s ha s been on he north r n part of the te s tern Front, ~ he e B it i . , Can dians, and the Am rican Ninth A y are l' -? ared n oised fo ·:- h a. t 0 1 . eem to be a e i iv e troke of the var. ~ fro tho e part is un er a v e il of blank conc ~a l · n t. ~en: :¢!11- Q. n e ... black ut of uch ort ,.. • - - - n ' "' u y 1 ... · · a c o n s e q u v e n fro 11 th _ P 1 n ve t on ' t '. I ) • • L. 0 o n L ~ . n u h 0 u l ' e t ~.. . ►, h i p , r I\ I en f 0 en_ , he ~ i""' n e o f \ h a t' goino on. Bu n ~ V n h e enem 0 -> n t t k no w at the p oin · :he r e , re . tly, ix it coun s O S t. ot only is h e a P e•· ut, but a lso a barrier to keep the Ge m a n . o n ee ing KlllJ X Gl:f a nythin of l port a nce. Berlin tells aga i o t h a t · iuunen bank o artificial fog, for ixty , ile · alon the north er n len th of the Vie s tern Fron t -- a kin of supersmoke screen that blan c- ev e rything out. The _ e the a ll - out blo w is massing, a n a s ault to e hurl e acro es t e Rhin e by Br iti sh Fi e l d u r s h a l . ont ornery. !katix Th t a the ne ~s p ie ure for the da y. - Now toni ht ·e he ar of Patton's men, a ,·· ay to the s 0 1 J th - of t he n e w -bl a ckout- a n •t he .veil-of- a rtificial fogr strikin r cro _ the hin e -- a ga in t a m o s t no oppo , i i on . On · ,1-~..,, u ect h Rt the G r a ns, •ith t hg ir attent i 1 co centrat l p t,) t J. .. h, 1 l ~J t _ V I., L v e n T i . r m y c ro l 0~ 1 t n e. Q Ai t i o n t o y &--t1\ l i c ~ th a t t e c r · t, i c 1 · e or i h u t ar t of Ger a ny ju aero s the in e fr he r i ti h , Can a di a ns, nd Ax Ameri c an inth A r n y . ~ ~ - - the R uhr, .cn-e=:o~ ,) V\...(? ~ Germany's j:"wat~ ce nt e r ~ f in ustri a l production. To a y t h ou s n of A l i e p l a ne s continue the a ir as ault a ga in.:>t the . uhr V a lley, which . now has been batt red in stupendous fa b: ~ n for three d a y in t succe s ion. ~ t h e area into which British Field lars h al " ontgomery w1ll hurl the armies of Britain a nd 6ana a, ~~~ n the United St tes Ninth_iArMI .... ~ being almost oblite at e , -- & & d ~ . . 1 . s • g-:ree:te&t ~-w ~~ ~ -thou sa nds of ton s of bombs to ay ~ - t . ~ e work ()'f turnin~ the entire Ruhr into score h e r u i s _TF; h e ' N e a the r ~ a s be au t if u 1, t yp i c a 1 Sprin w e th e r , a nd - - - =- - r . a a· l e r · ., .. i r · (\ .. ' ~ ' - P. a1 0 , ,. of i f 1 1 ~ , fl rn • 0 r1a i.n , · n 1 0 • :. J ' - k i ' 0 k o ! • I.) • I • ne .,.. r i i ..,A . " h i a 1 u . t a l l u i n . e o f e i. t i e ~ r e . ea . I d n' t see , " s d r " h 1 t ey C a n · t i u t o f h re ex ep t y 0 e n u y ni ht." i l l a noth a ir · n u • i t in t h e · o " v e ryt hi on the o th l e o f t e in i s burn in .;) . EV ry tine I looked, •xi t he re v e r e nor~ bobs r ini n don a nd o r e m ok e a n f i r e co n in 6 u ." s ch l th e p r e lu e fro t he air, s the rtifici a l ne s bl C IJ a n a s i x ty- m il Aa~ti:fifiKA f o h id es the m s sing 0 th or e o n he round. le have some comm nt from General Bradley A ' ~ , . . , . . of the Twelfth brmy Group, on the appointment ..,_ of a new Oerm n commander for th~ Western Front. As we beard yesterd~y, von Rundstedt has been replaced by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, hitherto commander of the German forces in Italy. General Bradley says he thinks that the change was mad · e because of the success Iesselring has had on the Italian front - his exploits This of defense amon the Italian mountains. l~•••Amight help to restore confidence in the badly battered German armies along the Rhine. That'ls General Bradley's explanation of Iesaelring's appointaent, tc which the General adds, "Be arrives at a bad time • .-fBow bad that time is for the _ , ~ --v- . & f l ~ ~ is expanded I by Bradley. He states that the destruction of the German forces west of the Rhine has now been com 1 P eted, and • nothing can prevent the Allie from crossing the river as they please. The i ng o f the can be a cc om p 1 is he d , in Gene r al Br ad 1 e y ' s w o rd s - " a 1 most anywhere and any time." ( B~wev ~ r, he gi;es ~ - } h~ usu ~ l ca:iion agMnst ,,. /. ,. over-optAmisa. tl■•i "I don't thin-t•, he says, "that we / / .9'°{id • , :r;, i te too ~l11ring h ,,, eadlines _ t~at the war , is over or it may the enemy Here's a m ess a e from the We s tern ir o nt to a fami ly d o wn in ' ex s. T he mess g e s a ys, "Ieep right on praying." A few days a g o at an Americ a n airfield somewhere in Germany, Fi g h er Pilot Lieutenant Harold McNabb of aco, Texas, got a letter from the folks at home. They wrote - they were praying for him. And that was in hia 0 ■ ind when he took off on a dive bombing and strafing miss ion. \f Ra was attac k ing six German tanks at a " croaaroads on the other sine of the Rhine, when be dived too low, and the Ge~~& guns got him in their sights. " " Bullets ripped through the wings of his plane and into the engine. Black smoke poured out, and oil from the engines blinded him. It · 1ooked as if he would have to try to make a crash landing, in German territory - and become a prisoner. reaeabering But he kept JZa,tia1 - the folks at A home were praying for him. And that encouraged him to do - an almost incredible thing - get ba c k across the Rhine and int o Am er i c an t e r r it o ry • H i s pa 1 a , in o the r p 1 an es , uided him - giving him directi o ns by radio telephone. In his crippled plane he had to land at a hundred and thirty miles an hour, and the wheels had been smashed by Germ a n bullets. The plane skidded on its belly, and turned a half-aoaersault, burying its nose in the ground. But out came Yclabb of Waco, Texas. And then what he had to say was this: Tell the folks at home, tell his father, his mother and his wife - •leep right on praying.• - F ro m t he Easter n Fr on t l ike ise , the r e i a little th at is defi n ite - virtu al n h e Russian s ide, and some rath e r ambiguous word fro• Berlin. The Germ a n s decl e re that the Russians h a ve opened an offensive at the p o i nt where they are c osest to the Nazi capit a l, and f' broke~through. We are told that Soviet forces scored an adv a nce that ·took them to a town five miles west of the captured fortress of Iuestrin, a point - t:w. o thirty-~~ mil4:?s from Berlin. The Germans follow this up with claims of having repelled the Russians, but admit 0... i:h Red Army smash through the first lines of German ,.. defense. - -- ' We ha v e a melodr matic story about an attempt to kill Goebbels, the Nazi Pr opa anda inister. It comes via Stockholm - a n c1 , if true, would indicate a line of Allied communic tion right into the heart of Nazi affairs in Berlin. The story is that Goebbels has a private air raid shelter in the suburbs of the German capital, ;,t- and in t;IFi=a a time bomb was planted. This, we are told, " 188 in connection with an Allied air raid - the idea being that the approach of attacking planes would send the Nazi mouthpiece to his air raid shelter, and while he was dodging the air bombs down there, the time bomb would explode. Obviously, the whol~ thing would appear to go right back to Allied headquarters. The attempt to get Goebbels is ascribed to German anti-Nazi saboteurs, but these would have to know when the Allied planes would arrive f The plan went awry, a n missed Goebbels by half an h o ur. The reason was that, while the German saboteurs had correct word about the schedule of the air raid, soaething happened to delay it for half an hour. So Goebbels was not chased to •is shelter in tiae, and the boab exploded before he got · there. When the Allied planes ~ approached,~be went dashing for a trip to the shelter, lad he found the p lace a wreck. The boab had blown it to bits and killed several lieutenants of Goebbels - they having been in the shelter as a safe place, just in case. Still another story tells of an atteapt to 111as ■ inate the Nazi overlord of iast• Vienna, Baldur von ~ I Schirach. That arch Nazi, w e ; \ ~ ~ drew a fusillade of bullets because of a statement that he made. With the Buaaian armies driving th~ough Hungary and on the road to Vienna, capital should be defended to the last, w,M;il street tie 't; atreet,f:i:g.h:t~~ although the city might be d re uced to t ruin•• bat wa answered by threatening letters in the aail, and then by bullets. The Kazi overlord, we are told, ja■t aanaged to eave biaaelf by throwing bimaelf flat in tb• 1treet, as a killer opened fire. Several of hi• aides ~ ,,,. __,,. ,. ~ -v'\, were~,..__ but the big time Bazi escaped - groveling in th• dirt. In t h ) hili pJ i n e s A mer i ca n t roop s h a ve • seized an ai r b s e it h in t elve iles of Ba g uio, summer capit a l o f t e P h ili p i e s and n o a s t ron g hold of the Japs. In the advance on Baguio, M acArthur's troops hurled b · ck four Jap co u nter-att a cls. In the ai1Jthe a ction is such that the Japs have every r ca on to fe a r th a t they will soon lose their grip on th e three remai n i n g large isl~nds that they hold Cebu, Negroa and Bohol. American planes have been rangin g tho s e i s lands with heavy att a cks, and they are li 1 ely to be invaded soon. uaiag, -even for the P&eifie Coe.!~- The Senate toda7 turned down Aubre7 lilliaas, 18 Aural Electrification Adainistrator. He was attacked on grounds of religion and on charge• of Comauniaa - which charge he sharply denied. The fight againat hi• waa led b7 Deaocratic conaerYatives, and Republican• joined it - with the result that today it was fift7-two to thirty-sis, rejecting the President'• appointaent of l••r•J lilliaaa. In the desert wilderness along the border of Texas and Mexico, a family of fourteen from Missouri bas arrived - led by a Messiah. He ia a fourteen year old boy, and his father and mother, brothers and sisters are the disciple• who followd hi■. The fourteen year old ~ h e baa r ceived a heavenly aessage which directed f'- hia to lead his family to a Proaiaed Land along th• Bio Grande, where be ia to preach new revelationa. Their name is Denham, and the7 co•• fro• Independence, liaaouri, where tbe7 ••r• a prosperou■ fara family. Life was co ■fortable and ordinary for thea, until a short while ago - when the boy began to have visions. Be announced that be was the Messiah, and bade the family w gi•e up their worldly poaaeasiona and follow hi• to the Promised Land. •le were uaed to a coafortable life,• said the mother today, •a nd had all we needed. It wasn.'t easz to give it a l l up.• But they did, and •~~rted out in fara auto ■ obilee. Directed by the fourteen year old essiak, tav \raveled f: down to the lio Graade valle7 - which, be said, had been /\ revealed to hi• as . the ,romised Land. There they are now - with ao ■e earthl7 trouble ~~ ' toA ~ rltn/\ The Draft Board 11 interested elder brother of the Meaaiah, who was deferred as an essential far ■ worker, but now ia being called for ailitar1 aervice. And th• lation!ng Board is asking - how did the faail1 of the fourteen 7ear old Messiah get its gasoline for the trip to th• Pro■ iaed Land on th• Rio Grande? CIR CO..§ -- It' t h ol ed t o f ch e~ tnu ts to say that S p ring is here, nn , i th it c om s t he C 1· r cu s • E 1tr t ver., year a this t i e circus p u b li ity 0 ets onto the ne s wire, the press agent for t e Greatest Sho w on Earth doing his stuff. o to y e ha ve sane lyric prose from that mighty man of p lu g and blurbs, Beverly K ~ lly, Poet taureate for Rin6ling Brothers And Barnum & Bailey. Have we anything new from him? Well, yes and no. The oldest wheeze in circus baltyhoo is that useful part ~ .... .k,. of speech y a - the adjective. Circus ,A.c:att';~c, 9 ,ince " Barnum's day, ha s fe a tur d resounding superlatives like prodigious, colo ss al, gargantuan, tremendous, stupendous. Adjective s a re old, b ut tod a y Bev e rly Kelly gives us some new one • The United Pre ss re p orts th this latest blurbs 1 in describing the Gr ea test Show on Earth, call it: "Transcendental, splendescent, refulgent and brobdign ag ian." That last one -- brobdignagian 1 ~ so 8 u r pr i s i n g t h a t t be U n it e d . e s s ne w d i 8 P at ch misspells it. In telling this next bit of news ' I want to explain - that I had no intention of horning in on Hugh Jaaes. as if I might be reciting~• ii\: 5~.rft-~, how good those tiira:oa, commercials ;< ;-, Although - it may aeea #· ""'commercial. That's are - an iaportant statment froa Washington aounding like one. It comes from J. A. Irug, Chairman of the lar Production Board. Be urge• that we lubricate our ho~• ■achinery, and tells us the following - and doesn't it 1ound like Hugh ~aaes. •It ia urgent that every precaution be taken to protect and lubricate hoae front aachinery - to keep it running until victory coaes. ETery ball and roller bearing, every small part,• declares lar Production Chairman Krug in his best Hugh Jaaes manner, •aust continue to function. Kost of our autoaobiles, trucks, tY~ and buses, and farm machinery, have seen their better days. Yet they are still essential cogs in our Ill .. 2 ,1ctory machines. They must be kept rolling.• ~~ And now, Bugh, what is your J\•lij~ for tonight .. lubricating oil? 9PRI -- cone rnin . i J apan · e - f . ~ ric n 0 irls and the Sp ring fie le . l n. The story t ld h o t ringfield, A assac hu set , t y ve a pl n for inculc ting racial tolera nce • n th five Japane e-A eri ca n girls were s ~ n t the re . N ..,. , h o i e v e r , s a i he ne s r 0 port, the Japane e- A e ri~ a n g irls were l e ving rin 0 field, because durin g thei stay in th city unfriendline ss ~ o s tility. they had found People in c p ringfield protest,',-- a st r.. tement by the '&ayor of the City, and an editorial in the Springfield Onion bein typical. The story first appeared in a local Springfield ne1spaper, an the Japanese-A mer ic a n girls themselves were quoted. Later. I am infor ed, they enied they ha d aia said any such thing. The . ole t bing, it seems to me, boils down to so ethin , of a p radox. The Springfield lan is a of inculc ting racial tolerance in classroo school chil ren. The effect of : ar propag nda, on the - - -- other h a nd, 1. t o instill h a tre of the Japane s e. so you h a ve one t i ' pul l in 1 ag ainst the other, and it woul d t a ke a miracl e for t:h• racial tolerance plan to " a:asa aboli s he:tt arti m e feelin in the c se o f ~ . ~-. ls. Japanese-Am e rican ai:Z?