General M a cArthur adds to our news fro■ the Pacific toni g ht. His pl"fn::4f,.opped A one•hundred-and•seventy-eight tons of bombs on t h ~ Japanese airdromes around Wewak in northern New - Guinea,Atbe fourteenth raid on that a ea since llarch eleventh. /1.,f.,, The bombers of llacArthur's command have bit two more enemy ships. ~makes a total of twenty-five Japan se vessels either sunk or damaged in that area in the ~aa1A,_C ,!:C: • Yost of the cr a ft destroyed in tho• waters were bringing men and supplies to reinforce the Jap bases at Rabaul on Rew Britain, and at A. Iavieng. - - - - - 0 Our air other operations in orces in those parts conducted ~ the Southwest PacificAtoo numerous to count u~. ~ Th e to tal ~m amounts to a continuous /t of bombarding attacks on Jap positions, giving •nemy no rest. EA£Il!£ - 2.. .. In th ~ v r o f the Pacific, .a,, t~a formation of Ar■y bombers attack ed Ponape again, .a Alf• in the carolines. They met with he r vy flak and interception from fifteen Jap Zeros. The Bombers were escorted by ~ ~ ■arine fighter ~ ; They bag g ed few enemy planes lllle" L:v.c., ./ A- ,,, probabl~~ more. Bombers of the army, navy and marine corps al10 1truck four Jap positions on atolls in the Marshall•. ' ~ All our planes returne.t unharmed. ,A.. The Japanese invasion of India appears to be gaining hea d way. An official communique fro ■ Newp>elhi s adaitr"' that the Mikado's troops are advancing, It ) era pushing ahead across the wild So ■ra hill• . ' J,r ~ ~ I F t - - and~:::::::J-~ the main railway betwee~B8ngal and tb Province of Assam. The Jape are now revealed to be attackin& in five columns. The one which is threatening the Aeaam-Bengal Railway will, if it succeed•, cut all co ■aunications between the Allied forces in Bur ■ a and their bases in India. But the worst threat comes from the main ~ Japanese column 11 -~ is moving up the highway froa iC • Tiddu in the Chin hills toward Imphal, a.. capital of Manipur. Small raiding parties from this coluan are filterin g into ~ritish lines, cutting up the British rear guard, establishing machine gun nests~ and road blocks alon~hat important highway. Spokesmen at bu14 Lilts Mountbatten'• xa headquarters report that the · main forces of the eneay are still twenty-five ailes short of the Indian border and eighty miles south of Imphal. In Washington, there are rumors th,t official government circles are a bit . uneasy over the situation in that Burmese-Indian theatre of war. They are not much worried about the Burmese penetration toward India. They consider that General Stilwell'& advance toward• If! apanese coaaunication lines.;:, of far greater A ~ A iaportance than what the Japs have achieved on the frontier of India. Y:" Jhat worries Washington is the division of , f th ld +e.4 :uusa command in that part o e wor · _.. II tb "e kno -, i's the Commander-in-6hief of oun atten, as " ... ,t ,J all the Allied force s in southeastern A s i a ) ~ • ;;:r ID Burma,~••x S ia m, Malaya and Sumatr~ But in order to obt a in men and sup p lies, he has to appeal to the Co ■mander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, British General 11· Cle ala Auchin l eck. Furthermore, the Viceroy ot Indi lt•ooaat Wavell, has a good deal to say. Soae folk• in Washington think it ould be much better it Mountbatten were not so dependent upon Auchinleck and lavell. I I ••••••Q.11 this is unofficial.••• p1p\ak1• een1iierably of bk@ cka1aete1 of wha\ l•'lf' ■ea ••11 ••••~~lcM\b,, a asst useful word, Di patc h es f ro t Sw ed en toni g ht indicate that the Fi~~s may share the fate of the Hungarians. lothin g ~ ~ Laa ha p penet::d the news from ~ i s exceedinglJ g uarded. But tka it brings -rk wo r d dsllsttsl; thatASwedes will be shocked b u t ~ surprised Finna pay if the Nazis occupy Finland, aaking the ~~~' -''' f ~ r { t •'-A~ /~ ~e unrg_a_r_y_. _ _ _ _ _ __ Thia much is definite: - An increasing nu ■ber of Kazi units has been brought into the J.A.11 If._ . 1,£)::' naval base'\°f finland 1 L v-•~~ ""'r'-. _ A ~ ci,..l_ ",L,n.,....~ to~---~-· ~. BALlAIS - The joke -- a gri ru one -- is on the Hungarian• these days. Their country is not only overrun by a German aray of occupation, but they have to . pay the . cost of it. They have to feed the lazi troops and - shell out all the expenses of the maintenance of the inTadin1 ara7. So we hear from Swiea reports. One story tells us that eleven trainloads left the Hungarian capital for mncentration camps in Czechoslovakia -- carrying J~wa, . all•i•d Coamunists, and newspEprmen. The Preaier of Hungary, whoa the Nazis threw out, ia in refuge at the Tur~ish legation in Budapest. The a r on the eastern front i·s b now eing fought partly on Rumanian soi One Red Army is within four ~ - ~ /;~---·- miles of Cerna ut i, =Ila third largest city of ;~I ,~h· ,"'{LS • • • • • • • Butovina Province. e of the most important junctions on the trunk railway line running fro ■ Bucharest to Lwow in Old Poland. This was accomplished by the western wing of the ~ First Ukrainian Army~ • first captured Iamenets-Podola "-I'- • a key junction point in the southwestern corner of the Ukraine. The Red Army drove across the Dniester Rlt a to within fifty-five ailes ofthe old border of Czechoslovakia. At the same time, another coluan advance twelve miles beyond the Dniester,it,cz; and took the town of Sadagur a. The Se cond Army of the Ukraine took Sunbia, on the east 8 ide of the Prut River, thereby reaching a point within x•aix twenty miles of. Jassy, another raillay junction in R um a nia. RUSSIA• la Ion v's army is fanning outnOl\hward toward the forests of B~kavina 1 tJ4 has cut the last railway line of communications tialt. the Germa~~between the Ukraine and southern ~essarabia. armies Moscow a ~in is talking about having three German ~.,,.--:, trapped.,( The recapture of Iamenete-Podolsk will enable the Fir t Ukrainian irmy to cut off thousands of the northeast, a salient 1':.t-- Germans in a salient to ' ~ , - - ( ~ighteen hundred square miles. Another Red Army in Old Poland is delivering a - a1 11t~ac~Tarnopol. Berlin reports that the fighting at Tarnopol is more ferocious th~n eeJ cth•r 11.:'i.Xe ever ti••• waged on the eastern front. The A . - - garrison of Tarnopol is surrounded, and when the place falls, fifteen thousand Germans will either be killed or captured. But the largest trap of all, according to Mosco , is that hich threatens the Germans in the area around Ni k olaev and Odessa. There are supposed ~ t , , , r l ~ to be aa ■ a hundred thousand Nazis there. The drive of .A I\ Marshal Konev across Rumania, will isolate that part of BOSSIA - 3 --------- Hitler's armi e s entirely. The Soviet forces claimed to be in Bikolaev last eek, but now it appears that th47 , µ ~ o t yet iap control of tb&t great naval base. Tonight Moscow repeat. · the claia that the " Third Okra ·nian army b ~ ita way into the Toni ht:s story of the air war is pretty much of a repetition of those we heard practically every night last eek~ The Royal Air Force lost cats nine planes in l a t ni ht's attack on Essen, nine out of about a t ousand. It was the First raid on the great [rupp factory in eight months, and the quietest aission the British pilots ever had over the Ruhr district. Last July the R.A.F. dropped two thousa,a, two hundred and forty tons of bombs and destroyed two-thirds of the great steel works. ince then, the Germans aanaged to repair about one-fifth of the factory, and they were g~tting quite a substantial volume of production out of Th ton of Breda in the Netherl nda now suffers fro an a fliction of uninvited guests. •• IUZ&SU 1]) Holl a nd is f ull of them) i-ut .Breda has more than its ahar:,fr\ h a s become the hea d quarters of Field Marsha lsact&l hommel, Commander-in-Chief of the Nazi forces - . ~=a: ~)t the Anglo-Ameri c an invasion. Cl Breda h a s considerable importance in history. In Sixteen Sixty-Seven 1 a treaty of peace was signed there between England and Bolland. There was a fine castle outside the ton, rebuilt by Willia• of Orange. In modern times Queen Wilhelm~na•s government used it as a royal military academy~ Being located in the midst of a wide marsh, it used to be a strong fortress, but the marshes have been drained now. Having become Rommel's headquarters, Breda is now crowde d ith azi troops. ITALY ... - - --- - The Battle of Cassino today turned into a tre.aendous . , . pos ns in newspaper of The "Stars and Stripes,• l_b•••••••••~the herican soldiers, d ascribes the battle failure. Likewise the paper called the "Maple Leaf,• published by the Ca11adian contingent. "Stars and Stripes• declar~d openly th a t the assault on Cassino and Monastery Rill, which began eleven days ago, has b~en a failure 80 far, and the "llaple · Leaf" declared that after twelve days of the heaviest fighting, the band-to-hand battle has abated. Also , an editorial in "Maple Leaf• rx;t' spoke of the Allies as h a ving the habit of •tidding ~ ~ w i u 1 u t : ~ ~ . theasel ve s. I\ Then the Canadian a old ier editor adds ax that there is no reason to believe the Allied failure is final. at the r Allied fighting to Ger ■ ans, and. •stars and Stripes• sa1s the Allied plan was all right, but when the Bew Zealanders want into Cassino after the bombardment floa the air, they met far greater resBtance th~n the1 had expected, especially froa the Nazi paratrooperf, who were helped by a tremendous fire from the German batteries on UonaS t ery Bill. The German shock troops• stopping the Allies at the eleventh hour, when victory was within th81 r grasp. JJALT -_J_ The failure at Cassino may make it necessa11 for the Allied high command to revise the whole plan for the invasion of Fortress Europa. This is confiraed today by a -11tory froa London, which tells us that the battle for Cassino has taught the Allied generals aoae mighty important lessons. Experts are sayin& that Cassino ia like a tiny aegaent of the powerfull7 fortified coastal defenses of western Europe we'•• been hearing about. In and around Monte Cassino, there are deep vaults and ancient subterranean passa1•9,A..~ have been a great help to the Germans, who have uaed .. the■ not only for shelter but ~ ceamunication lines,-- /\ far underground)111he1c th1JD;4A immune fro ■ the rain of ~.rt if icat ion a heavy Allied a h el l s. In . their western coastu.1. ,lf■zsifiaaU. the Nazis, we h e ar, have the equivalent of those Cassino ~ ~ e . - : t - ~ subterranean p a s s a g e s ~ ~ ~ Europe we ••z are told the can move f t ls by which sol~rs Germans have a maze o unn~ -..~ ~ ~ " t o - ~ - , . f ,,-P bJ u d w Cid vu l tAO I O" •r:sh?tr ,Pd rom one,A IIIIER§ ~ -~~~ Tbe miners.A appear to have won an iaportant decision in the Supreae Court of the Oaited states. The ruling specifically refers onl1 to aen in iron ore fields. But Onion leaders declare that it applies ••• equally to all underground workers. The justices decided in a vote of seven-to-two, that under the Wage-Bour Law, miners should be paid for all time und&rgrouad. lhich •eans the7 are entitled to be compensated for every minute it takes the• fro ■ . the moment the1 leave daylight until they reaoh the etope, or wherever they work -- and until they eaerge again. This was one of the points under dispute between the coal miners an4 the War Labor Boar4. As the Union put it, the men want to . be paid from portal to portal. When miners are carried down in cages to their various levels, they sometimes h . ave to go considerable distances into the bowels of the earth to wherever the7 wort. In so doing theJJeither on foot or by und erground traa. In some mines these distances are considerable. JIIERS - 2 l••n in the silver, gold, lead and copper ainea of the West, this underground travel adds as auch as halt or three-quarters of an hour a da1 to the tiae a aan is away from his home. In some coal ainea even aore. So this decision from the Supreme Court ia of gre•t iaportance. And, the United Mine lortera aa7 it should cause the War Labor Board to grant an increase in pa7. The opinion of the majoritJ was written bJ Aaaooiate Justice Frank MurphJ. The dissenting voices •ere those of Chief Justice Stone and Associate Justice Uwen J. Roberts. . STRIIE --------- The street car strike has come to an end in San Francisco_.• ti Wh:•.::.-6iif ff bbF»efhl!l\ The Board of Supervisors settled it, promised the operators of trolleys and busses that the1 should~ ~ , t ~ ~ ~ i t e in wa es for which they struck. They wanted a raise of seven and a half cents an hour. 7t;, Ma1or luau• Lap~•• was against it, but ten out ot eleven supervisors guaranteed the ■ an increase of five cents an hour, even though the Ya1or vetoed it. "-lfbat endf a serious threat to the war effort in the San Francisco area. In Casper, Vfyo 1n , an au ience at a movie house as a tchin newsreel. It ... howed scenes of grim avents in It a ly, on t e beachhead at Anzio. In the middle of the newsreel the audience was startled by the voice of a man shouting, 'That's my wife• he cried. The audience#.bt:::Wl"- rnH;;':;f"l~ea.ff ~ e d around and A saw a 11an in uniform, standing · _ , in the middle of the theater. It was Lieutenant Walter E. Zurney, of Iittanning, Pennsylvania. wom'ajthe film, a eoean nurse. It was Mrs. Zurney. A - Zurney bad spotted a the in"uniform of an Army They badn~t seen eacbother for almost a year, not since she left ' him to go overseas as an Army nurse • .512,,.-f:o ~ o.t?to W'«.n-• --ff.«. -h, .Al~~;;....~ ~-..._~- i " e ~ ' · r r -V ' ( . ~ ~ • ,.,.,.. 4'11-,~ ~ I ~~ ~-3·~,~~ ~-£. O'\A y(/ll'n ~ ? i CONTROL [Q~kQLQ.s. P L!• The O ffice of rice Administration was considerab~ strengthened by t o decisions of the Supreae Court of the United States t oday. In both of them, even Chief Justice Stone went a l on g with his New Deal ' colleagues. In fact, the Chief Justice wrote one sf taaa himself, an opinion which declared tha t the lmergency Price Control Act was okay and the O.P.A. ha d a right to fix prices of foodstuff. This means, incidentaily, that two meat dealer• in Boston ta:c ••goto jail for six months and pay a fine ~ of a thousand dollars each. This was a six-to-three decision, and r. Justice Robert• wrote the dissenting opinion. He said that the Price tontrol Act was unconstitutional, and that it gave the Price Administrator , legislative p o wer . Congress, he said, cannot suspend any of the provi s ions o f the Constitution even during war. The othe r decision uph e ld the O.P.A. right to put a_ceilin g on rents. T h is w as an e i g ht-to-one aff ~ ir, • 1 th Justice Dougl as writing the opinion. Again, Justice Roberts dissented. News from the 0.P.A. An announcemvnt prolonging the life of all Red and Blue Staapa in our food rationing books. This has a double purpose. Soae ladies save up their coupons as long as possible, and just as they are about to expire, rush into the stores, buying right and left. So the O.P.A. •ants to do awa7 with that. f~e new order is als~ aimGd at curbing the wa7 10 ■1 folks are using their tokens. The7 have been chan1ing their stamps for those tokens, wh~ch are 100d indefinitely. In fact, there is reason to belieYe that so■e ladies consider the tokens almost in the light of 11ft currenc7. Te brilliant Fontaine Fox had a cartoon on the subject, in the NEW YORI SUN last week. It depicted the dismay on the fact of a man as he learns that hie wife has lost sixty-five tokens in the afternoon's bridge game. fi e hte~ pla ne s . They bombed airdromes in central and southwestern Fran c e and met with no opposition fro ■ the Germ a n ai r force. Even the enemy ground defenses were weak. Yara uders a lao bombed enemy delenses in northern France near Ca l ais.