PACI IC --- -- .. -- L , T - i oni ht i ■ ive us t e ory of C 0 i B--y by c rrier pl · ne on er than sixteen Jap n . eve ht cru · ■ e r, four d strayer 'Aeleven cargo • PHILIPPIN E _ __.....~ · ----------- In th Philippines the U. S. Twenty-Fourth is re po rted to be 1 1 set for an a ll-out attack on the Yamoshita Line in the nort h ern part of Leyte. t th same time th e veterans under Major General Irvin are tightening their lines aroun d the three thous~nd Jape trapped in the Ormoc Valley. A correspomd reports that an offen s ive action on a mis big scale is expected at any mome1t. Our troops - the few who landed yesterday on the Yapia Islands, nine hundred miles southeast of Leyte, are mopping up the enemy there. -----~o-... -~- Word has ju s t come through that one of our destroyers ent do,n in an engagement with enemy battleships and cruisers in the gulf of Surigao. In fact she ent down with all her uns firing; an, before Hhe sank she landed three torpedo hits on a Jap cruiser and one on a battle hip. This was part of the second PHILI P I N . S 2 .......... -. ....... --- -- __._..., ... -- b a t t l o f th hil ip pi n e , in whi c h our Se ve n th fl e e t t roy , d or m a g e a l l of the Japan a e men- o - wa r n prev e nt e d t h e m from a t tacking Ma cA rthur's men on L ey t e . T o s urvivors escaped fJtmn that d • estr , oyer, swam a s hor e , a n for three w eeks in t he jun . le, they do d ge d e nemy patrol s . That was o one of the Visayan Isl a nds, ne r Leyte. One of these lads couldn'' walk hen · he touch e d l a n d . I• His legs just ouldn't hold him up. Th e y had for four days been in the la water. · They say Jap ••~•k•• marksmanship isn't so hot and th a t one of our destroyers can handle two or three of theirs. We hope so. CHINA --- In Chin the Japs continu _ their west · rd push. Tokio announce to ay th t Field M rshal Bata has taken comnand of the operati ns in the field, Commander- in-Chief of all fo ces in China. Indicating th t the campaign in K angsi Provia::e is a major affair -- in t b e i r eye s . Will all this multiply the difficulties of conquering the · ikado' s Empire? Well, other plans are afoot, as we know. --o-- .. Donald Nelson, with thirteen experts and advisers, arrived at Chungking today. Step up production in the war industries in China! ~hat's Nelson's new job. At present those war industries are meager indeed. Planes of Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force have again bombed the docks at Hongkong. GB ---~ -- O L o · · PAC I I C ______ ....,._._.,... __ . _ ___ _ i i tz h s a vi i t or a t P rl to J a pan, t a n w h o rn d Pre ~ id nt ioo s velt an d ~cret r v Hull t t the jap a nese Y ould attack us, ~i bout warning, probably at Pe a rl HRrbor. Grew is now Chief of the •••i fpr EAstern division of t h e t tt Department. Be said his prime purpose in coming to Pearl Harbor s to take lessons in horse shoe pitching f ro Admirnl Nimitz. Then he added that he had learned other things f rom the Admiral includin g a lesson in psychology. Said Grew ~The United Stites must go to the end of the road with Japan, no matter how tough. If we do not we can be certain that our sons and gzaxt ■ xa grandsons will b e fi g hting the Jape all over a g ain/ • r o the · ester n }' r on t news today that s o u nd s lm ct l i e a t 11 tory. On entire American Army c1S be n in action in Fr ce, Holland, el ium an on the Ger n rontier ever si ce the breakthrough in Norman y, c:. n not a word leaked out about it, ntil today! It's the U.S. Ninth rmy under Lieutenant . General illi • H. Simpson, a t 11, soft-spoken soldier from Texas. This one, we hear, was ori inally called the Eighth rmy. But Eisenhower chang _ d its name to avoid confusion with the f mous British Eighth. After the break-through in Normandy the Ninth had the assignment of •i••~•i cleaning up Britanny and taking Brest. That siege ended September twentieth, whereupon the Ninth moved overt Luxembourg for a while. Final l y, it ~ent to its present position, bet~een our First Army under General Hodges, nd the British Second. RONT - ---------~------- e r tol h t it's pre ~ ence ha been k pt secret from tl e erm n too. E i nhow r tells us this tod ay - to ether ith or d bout the openin of h·s big winter offensive. Plon f our u r d ile front he has no given the gre n li ht to six armies totalin more th· n a million ....... ~ ~ ~ ~ ' General Hod es' First Army is heading straight fort · e Rhine. The Ninth Army, on his left flank, has gone into ~ ctio n in Holland, along side the . British Second. The Britishers began their part of the attack three days ago an so far have advanced some ten mile., and are now only thirty-three miles away . from the big factory city of Dusseldorf. The Canadian First which bore the brunt of the fighting for the estuary of the i•■ •if Scheldt, is bein@ held in res e rve. outh of H · ges is Patton' outfit, n south of P tton · the m ric n Seventh, n south of that the Fr nch First. That's the lineup as the big offen ive get under ay. !R~--~§!~fi __ tRQ_! at t is evenin 0 , e have ne s that the shock troops of the French FirstArmy, equipped ith Americ n material and munitions 1 4 H l ~ ~ are no less than eight miles fro Belfort, t.e-e gat ay to the valley of the lower Rhine. ,e ~-- learn today that in the late ummer atton's dvance cross France to the o elle was hel up for lack of ga oline and oil. If he had been able to roll on, over the G r11ans for another fifty miles, the whole battle might be over by no • So said the correspondent of the London Times. Bo ever, he adds, the situation is much better ~s it is, because it will probably mean a more complete victory at smaller cost. The pause enabled the American Generals to give their troops some rest and reinforcements and new weapons. Correspondents with the Third Army are writing as though Metz wer~ already virtually captured. But the probability is that the Third will still have to do a lot o f ~ fighting before \fte, tat.-'1hat ancient fortress. The Germans are counter- att~cking furiously, a ~ v e the Americans out of /\ one or two positions aouth and west of the city. But early this morning a British broadcast announced that American troops ere already only three-quarters of a mile away from the outskirts of Metz. Some of the ~ doughboys declare they are setting their atches by the A huge clock in the center of the city. And in some of the German counter-attacks American mortar and machine- ~ . gun,' fairly mowed them down. The Nazis are using the old white flag trick for all they are worth. One unit saw an entire column moving along waving white flags. But as the Americans advanc~d to take them prisoner, 7r they broke ranks and ran into a nearby fort. One German prisoner said the Nazis had withdrawn their best troops out of Metz and left only second-rate units to fight a delaying acti n. DUTCl OD --~--------- The kind of ether t . y are having on the esteJJ Front i in icate by a song th British Tommies are " singin on the front of Eastern Holland:- •Paddle Your ~- Own Canoe•. ~ - ar..u~ ~ ~ r o l ~ many a sour note. And~ varied occasionally with a sbout:•bring your own 1f7 rowboat•. Bolland is canal country, which provides plenty of water to cross even in the driest kind of ~ season. No it's raining,Athe land bet een the canals ■xis a eoggy morass. So the Tomm~plough~ through ~ 1Pw . . - . ■ ire and splashiacross canals. United Press Correspondent ~ N Mac illan tells of driving a jeep that went slithering and sliding over what be called •the flattest and soggiest land I have ever Be ca e upon a couple of British Tommies •• ■ x one a veteran of North Africa, who ro led:-•and to think I used to grumble in the desert•. ~ A.gladly trade all the mud in Holland for one good sand storm. - - That siege of Budapest - it's stil . on! Ho ever, Radio Berlin admits tonight, that the Reds have c ptured all the big fortresses east of the city. QBO CHJ.11 Pri m e inister C l urchill today had an exch a ~ e of words on the floor of the Bouse of Commons with Lady A1tor, the member from Plymouth. Churchill was telling the House th ~ t the Government would rush the building of new homes in Britain as fast as the progress of the war p ermitted. Thereupon the lady asked assure whether the Pri m e Minister wouldAi•••• the people that ~ . . . -.L,,.J I\ houses would go ahea~evenAof beer. Lady Astor, as you may recall, is an ardent Dry, which Mr. Churchill ■ e81r~- is not. Be replied: "Certainly, houses will go ahead of beer if it were proved th tone necessarily excludes the oth r. ~ He went on to say that the housl shortage had been a problem in Britain even before the Germa~ blitzedtlt destroyed tens of thousands of homes in southern England. The government, be added, will treat th~ -,;, task . as a wartime measure. /\ But he al o promised that the first effort of hie government after the efeat of Germany will be the CBORCBILL_.:_l_ defeat of Ja p an. In this he was merely repeating the promise he made a couple of months ago. S EDEN _._~_,,- ... of trouble b teen Nazi Germany and Sweden, ith a Stockholm report telliw. IA. of~Swedish round up o f a g ents o the H itler Gestapo. These have been carrying on the usual crooked work of with the Nazi undergr . ound/\••~ the enphasis on spying. Now the Swedes are beginning to arrest them. Of special significan-ce is the fact that the Gestapo a g e n t s ~ ~rounded up are not merely the underlings, the secon• raters. Top figures have been arrested;and Germans o,ecupyi . ng high official posts.1r'This is illustrated by the Chief of the German Tourist Bureau in StockholJ, Baron Berndt Von Gosler, who occupied a semi-diplomatic position. The Swedish police have grabbed him and he k has been ordered out of the country •as an undesirable foreigner•."if'The arrests announced today are only a beginning., More Gestapo workers are scheduled to be chucked out. All of which is said to please the Swedes exceedingly. Both press an.c public are applauding, and ant to se the deportation extended to full fled ed l Nazi diplomats, who are known to be doing spy work for the Gestapo. And h re is re ctio the S · edi h Le ation in Washington declared that these events in Sweden are positive indications of a change of policy. Sw den has shifted from ~ut..Jl-r.it- ~o the United 1~ at ions 'A Et1iil aid short of war. B ITL ~ ,_ _____ _ Th il an d oolly rumors about itler reached a c 1 i ax today - - - - it ·, n v ... till mor a ntastic theory. F ~ J / f er u rer 1n apan.-- o r a B itler-Hirohito I eetin. Tis emanates fro two se arate sources. It comes fro diplom , tic , circles i Spain an d fro a Londo ne spaper in ic an , ustrian a uthor, who has made a study of Hitler's ove ents says the indications are that t h e Nazi dictator ha s taken either a plane or a submarine to the far ea~t and is conferring with the - - war leaders of Ja an, heade d b y t e Miiado.1f"'T b e Spanish version is t t Bitler recently took a plane for a long trip, an d Ja p an is mentioned as the probable destination. I don't adite know what they could do at a Hitler-Hirohito meeting, excep maybe get out the Japanese eepin to els, and s hed abu c ant tears. b ~ ~ you a.a. i a,... ine Der fuhrer an - t e ikado laring t at eac ot er like a co~ple of gam b lers who h ave _ost. 1\'"' Still an er ru or has Bitler a in a lo plane trip. This one st a e s h at e b s =o~ o o h A , er ica, fleei f r o e e te d Ger a ny to ~ ake r~ u e _ in _ _ American country. Argentina is named. Let's join President Roosevelt in squelching what he today called• a vicious rumor•, also •an unqua ified falsehood•. There are a lot of cockeyed rumors goin around, most of them mighty ugly. This one 1s the lowest gossip of all, the story that Americ wounded at the front have to bu, blood plas ■ a. The . . President delcares:• The latest and oat Yicious rumor that has come to y att~ntion, is that blood p aa ■ a, given so spontaneously and pltriotically to the Rad Cross by million ■ of Americana, is being sold to our ~ wounded fighting aen. This i1 an unqualifi ,, ieclare ■ the President 1and be adda:L persons spreading b r I. ,. such rumors should be reported t o t e • B. RAFT ------ ovie Star eorge Raft is very an ry. Be is goin to file suit for slander. It is all bee use of a crap game on arch t enty-fourtb. According to the District Attorney of Ne York county, an ' aircraft executive said he lost Eighteen-thousand• five hundred in a ame at the apartment of Uana~er Leo Durocher of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Durocher • a not there. But the air~raft executive, ~artin ~ri~ told the ew Y o r i ~ e 4 that a ~ top-flight movie actor had made thirteen straight ~ • A c t o r George R-ft resents the implication that bot dice were used in that game.Sid be, I ■ •sounds to me like furin needs some extra dough " fast and thinks this is an ~asy way to get it•. Another srokesman for R&ft was his body guard, ack Gray, ho was reported to have the . .. .. .,. . . .. . nickname of Killer. I1ller Gray said to the reporters: •• •Y.e'll take this big manufacturer for plenty•, and be added •that is, if he has any dough. Then he •••l exclaimed indi5nantly, "imagi RAFT - 2 -----~ him saying a thin like that about Raft. The boss is a sensitive fellow and it re lly hurts hi to have anybody think he'd do a thing like that•. l,&BQft_~Qil~ There il l be no split-up of the War Labor Board. The Chairman and to other public embers who wanted to resign have consente d to stick to their jobs. The President has preTailed upon them to centinue on the Board until the final defeat of Germany; or, at leas\ until they can leave without seriously affecting the work of the Board. A hite House announcement says that the President bas decided be will not accept their resignations. So, they'll stay on the job. Governor Donnell of Mtssourl finds reason to be ■ore and more anxious ev ry day about bis ffort to beco ■e United States Senator. A block of soldier iotes that were counted and reported tod~ has cut his lead . down to nine hundred and ninetr-five. The vote, we hear, is virtually all in, but it seems there still is a chance that Donnell• J lose. ROS E NBERG ------ There')_ been talk ~ President Roosevelt ~ ~ repla~ Madam Perkins as Secretary of Labors with ~ Anna .tlosenberg, head of the War Manpower Commission for Hew York. Mrs. Rosenberg herself sqelcbed th~ rumor f.h-t.½ today. And 1 she took time out to den7 another. the report that she was to be Deputy · Director in charge of Veterans Rehabilitation. That .•.e&J.~ . job she ~urned down so11e time ago, although she baa been serving as Consultant on policy to General Bines, the Director of Veterans Administration • . A degree of r lief is in sight for businessmen, one that they s h ould gre t with cheers. There will be fewer questionnaires for them to answer -- when the war is on in Europe. The promise from the Bureau of the B*dget However, the Government will still need statistics to help in the job of converting industry fro ■ wartime to peacetime economy. Bo that sounds lite another promise ith a string to it. The question of playing the Army and Navy ~ football game in a big city has ~ecome a Cabinet ~ " issue. A The Secretaries . . . divided. Navy Secretary is ind, an'aj in favor of Forrestal has changed his transferring the game to ' "'iadelphia or New York, t.. .e.. according to the latest report. But ar Secretary ' ~ ~f.f StimsonAholds out for Annapolis. Reporters asked Treasury Secretafy Morgenthau about it today. He declined to go out on a limb,••••a . . ~ le tHi not want 1 ,to oppose the Office of Defense Transportation. But he did say that if the game were played in a large stadium, five or ten million dollars' 1f'" worth of war bonas could be sold. Then up spoke Director Ted Gamble of the War Finance Division of Said he: •1 don't like to butt in, Mr. the Treasury. /\ 'llmxiDasm«ackxlrbMrk&:x1tklclc~1cUtx'kct Secretary, xtt.cit&u:.xxx /\. but it would be more like fifty millions.• The President himself will have to decide. BJRIES Former Justice James F. Byrnes is now definitely , • sio. Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconver The Senate confirmed the nomination half an ~our after Mr. Roo ~ evelt sent it in. Senat~r George of Georgia asked his colleagues to depart from the usual rule that no ■ inations have to be referred to a committee. the Senators agreed u~a•imously. Senator Wh&e of Maine, the Republican floor leader, put in a resounding tribute forf1rnes. Our Eighth Air Force to .. ay hammered German positions bet een Aachen and Cologne. One airman descri ed it as a show of air power beyond b , elief. an unbroken stream of planes flew over the targets, showering down a solid stream of bom b s. For this General Doolittle sent out more than twelve hundred heavy bombers• plus escort. And after our own E , ighth Air Force got through, the Royal Air Force took over with huge formations of Lancaaters. Pilots aay they encountered only slight act- act, and no German planes. AIR IAR . . . . . . . . - - - - · illillHiia 0'.lr Eighth Air Force to • 1 ay hammered German positions bet een Aachen and Cologne. One airman described it as a show of air power beyond belief. An unbroken stream of planes fle~ over the targets, show e ring down a solid stream of bom b s. For this General Doolittle sent out more than twelve hundred heavy bombers, plus escort. And after our own Eighth Air Fo ~ Tce got thr · ough, the Royal Air Force took over with huge formations of Lancaaters. Pilots say they encountered only sligbt act- ack, and no German planes. Again e have stories of widespread unrest in Germany;an d 1 sabot · ge. The sabot a ge accomplished by some of the foreign slave workers of whom there are eight million in Hitler's Reich. I~ ~eptember General Eisenhow · e !' broadcast an ap p eal to t h e ~ ~ t • quit their jobs in Nazi" f ctories and go~nto lul hid ing~!ome e4 ~ti . . may have been able to do so. ~t, i-t, Te-ttl:d -- no~ ha,e l>ee1t= a11r +sea . . . ,_ Those eight million H:"'1MI impressed from the conquered countries, now represent about one-tenth of the populati o n of Germany, and almost to a man they hate the Germans. Newspaper stories also report that German civilians have been arrested and thrown -- -- concentration ca ■ps ••• for rioting, thousands .ll A of them.