--- f.1 - GOOD EVENING VERYBODY: ~~ "Righ\ we hav~ a significant mesSage from Ad■iral~~l(~and e r-in-Chief o f ~ ilcch la■ 1 • Pacific F ~ ; ' ti■e has ••• com~• :.WIS:~ to attack in the Pa~ficJ J:- to give the Japs 1-- ~-fz~Ok)- no rest fro■ now on. 1 ,te see the beginnings of a ,, new vic;,o~,~~-~o~o~e~n~ti~i~n~l~e~F~.:w1 en t1ai1btt& I I ~.~,~~ ■raf•l•L~a~::al"t~u~i.--bL•.••••~the officers and men of the Pacific Fleet feel the victory is sure! 1 Then he used these words •we also know that bitter and blo o dy fighting lies ahead•. ~, /) - ~ C > ~ Admiral MimitzAgave a c o n ~ hraphic picture of ~heac L■D yu•»lfrfightingAin the Pacific. A ~ -tLt- For thA'6 t o years he explaine~ the Unit e d States "fioJ.-e.:f::ront ed with the job of holding the Jape in ,, check while col le cting the strength nec e ssary to d. u,,, . ~ '. drive throu g h to the vitals of~t•■ :a defensive system. ,-- 1, • LEAD - 2 ---- That necessity no loner exist s . e are Nimitz, g ettin g sip~ men and planes. Then he revie ed w~at had been accomplished. In the North e have made o~r flank in t h e Aleutians completely safe. In the south, meanin g also the Southwest Pacific, we have attacked by air, land and sea until we now ave the Japs in a prec a rious position. liaitz admitt~d that in ' the lar er areas we have not been ble to hurt the Nip p onese much but from now on, said the Admiral, the purpose is to give them no rest anywhere until the time has come for the m ajor attack. Riaitz then ~ded these words nd they ~re The has dug / must and and di ~ m out• . A I , I ail to be patient, not to ~sk for news be g ged s battles before it is saf e for the Nav y to give out t h t news. LEAD - 3 ---- And here is further encouraging ne s from the Pacific. ~ i ck ,., t:102+ j ! ta •1.f f ases . , j kia- PACIFIC ------- In the eleven days of November, American and Australian airmen de s troyed three hund red and forty-eight Japanese planes; and, probably ninety- nine more. Which represents the same rate as that of last month, when they knocked out seven hundred and seventy-five enemy .. aircraft, a record up to that time. However, the Japs are showing consider ble skill in brinbing in reinforcements and repairing wit speed their damaged airfields. PAClr.!£_- 2 --~ l'.Aa,.~ The battle for Bougainvill~a&~a;a;a~=a;aa;_.. ~to~~ pretty wel~flRear Admiral Carney, Chief of Staff to ~ .!!:i" -u,s, Admiral Halsey ,~eport~ that ' th~ laiLeia Stltilf :sZL reinforc ments -----~ landed succe sfully on Monday, A. have been a gre t he l p to the marines at Impress Augusta Bay. . ~~ However, we must be prepared for news " of far mor P. serious fighting' on that islana; t h a t ~ Jap batt a lion which was landed on the left flank of them r s, is p robably only the a d vance guard of ~ larger forcesj~!h~ Japs will try to make fresh lan a in g s on a big r scaleJan d our troops will have to be r P . dy to me e t attacks from every side. LE - A ---- Tonight e l ea rn for the first time some details of a daring oper a tion by a paratroop battalion which••• helped the Marines establish t eir bridgehead on Bougainville.lelan&. The information come s f rom General acArthur's hea dquarter s . T h e paratroopers ere dropped on Choiseul Island on Octo er twenty- ei · ht, four d ya before the Marines l a nded at Empress Au 0 usta Bay. Chois ul Island is o ly thirty miles from t . e place where the Marines landed on Bougainville. lf;he paratmop operation was a feint, the idea b e ing {2J to distract the attention of the enemy.A It was completely successful. The Japs wee so flustered by the landing of those paratroopers on Cboiseul far easier that the Marines h d a ~tzlJt•••~time landing on Bougainville than they would have had otherwise. The paratroops remained on Choiseul only until November Fifth. H~ving accomplished what they were sent to do they withdrew with complete success. STRIJNG _ __.. -- recent successes must not make us to o optimistic. Major General Strong of the ttaitwd Stataa Army Intelligence declares that today Germany has thre e times more combat strength than at the start of the war and a much greater air force. General Strong ex p l ins that the total of Hitler's armies amounte to at least three hundred well traine divisions. -u:..~ And although the Allies have done things t~-Aair ~~ forceAi is larger than ever. . - t : - ( ~ .. (A..4....--t:l-:t As for Japan,Aher man power resources are ~ huge. /\The Mikado has two million men eligible for milita~y service who have not yet been drafted and two mil l ion more betwe n the ages of seventeen and twenty. The Brit i sh Haus of Co mmon t o da y l i s ened to a lon g s p eec h from For i g n S e er t a ry Anth o ny Eden; S ~ P t ~ ~ I F ~ a · 1 1 ~ I' t ~~ct--~ A t ~ ; , ( ~ mission to oscow. ~u said the r e u ts of the conference ~ I¼' had exceeded his fondest ho p e• am declared~ tBo•• ~ fifteen days in the Soviet capital,\brought new warmth and new confidence into all Briti s h dealin s w i t h ~ their Soviet and A:m:e~r:_:i~c;a~n~f~-r~1~·e~n~d::.;;.s~.----------.... ~ l d the Commons th olotov had become ~ Chairman of the/\eetings only at the insistence of Secretary Bull and himself and, s a id Eden , he never sat under a Chairman who showed greater p~tience, jud ment and s k ill. The ~!1J.!:!:1' discussions, c ~ E d e n , did more g oo for mutual rel a tions than any other phase of the confe r ence. The re s ult w as that the three owe r s EDEN - a red u on me ur s for short n·n g the duration of the r . h at thos measur e will be c n be made public only . s they develo p at th expens f the enemy. paid Eden_A,•:i•~ a g lowing tribute to the vision and statesmanshi of Secretary Hull. Hes id the declar tion ~~./lzJL~ on general security we ■ 1111 wor-k. Eden p oi ted out that .A ,.( " it covers the hole future organization of world security, and for that reason everybody is happy th.-:f~ government of ~ . . ~ , : r _ China Its 1111a: 11 f ~ i:o ~aree gover~•eot.:s ~~ EDE - 3 --- ~ Eden then w nt n to tell theAParliam nt that they ha be e n interested to observe ttilt German prop ganda as extremely a tive while they were in ~-Jkt--';;t-- r,~ssion. ~ kept suggesting th , .t there ere differences ~ ~-tl.r;. bet een Eden, Hull and Molotov. !tie.. Nazis tried to A 80 diss niion by every means tn their po er . ~ added sl•i •ith a chuckle that all these attempts had tl-t failed utterly, and th.fNazi leaders have completely I-- ~ l and finally lost all chance ~ 9 d i s u n i t y between the three Allie d p o rs. The British Foreign Sepr tary admitted fran ly t t the three powers had not a reed on every point. That ould in eed h ~ve been an intern t ional ---~----._,. __ . he o n . 0 h o h i n , 0 V .. . , n h u ul e h n e 4 ~ . Hous th ~ t one thin which /\ h struc all Briti hand American visitors was the quiet confidence of the Red Army and the Soviet people. s . i 1 0 C 1ncre ·b t l /\ ivi h i V i hu t., mu hro · ov· t i a ounds th i ifficulti s;tand 1rttl s 1 ,iltlg b· ~ k ~ wh t used to be the Polish bor G u tin' h s a y r c p t ur d r coun s t i that t f the o~r ine, and it from th m el ves t a t fi tin of the most viol n o rth of iev. ihe fferlin · io escribes it as a su_e -b ttle. T h ey r port th t th e ed generals have thr D ~ hu e t nk forces into th t art of the . line, SU orted by he vy till y ba t ies,on a ~ fr o nt ix iles l o :ti;~~~ i..vi d ently at t empting to bre a through oza that =1'1011t:: in i big?~Kft of &- • ay-: ~ I In t h e Cri e a «I ::eWi-, the fighting ~ - or int s . • The S ovi t forces tlie1e no1 have a Vt e 11 e st a b 1 i s he d b r id e h e · d c :1 the Ke r ch en ins u 1 a , an d / \ ~ . __d::rs:i:r=t:t;~:t:J;==t~ 1 -==t ;:i::; ~;=!e:itl~ have reta en mor th a hun ed pa ces. U , .> IA - . - - ... -------- - The G 1 .. f r o ne · in no m t -'- to mi imiz ~ h . i O 1S l i t of th i mies on thet Th*k A st n fr n t. excuses nd attribute th ir retreat to h en o s num ic 1 superio ity of the Rus i n s ; ~ ~ a o u th fa su ior forces of ov i ~ \ armies. ~,~:=::!ts:!!: a I e t still- .Mt --4,heiT waJ. Se ,eral times it ha-~ been :predietea- taa:& the) wuald ha.-e--to e+.sop seen--, Jeeeayee t.ftei~ liaes ef 0emmtutiea+,ion a1 e becomiag &Q l0t1g, - ~ 7P ~aey aos't eeem te eiop. A the resent rate, it would not be in the least surprisin to hear of their pushing the last Germ n soldier off Russian soil by Christmas. (cr e u ot) Toni ht h v a stirrin t le of an exploit ich did enor ou da a g e to Nazi munitions factor· es in F ance. A group of special · _ y trained French saboteurs sneaked int the middle of a network of armament pl a nts in France. They de troyed one power plant after another and before they bad finished they bad •••t• destroyed three essential power stations. The effect was to put out of business the great Schneider-Creusot Munitions f ctoriee, the biggest in France, the second biggest in Europe. Six of the sab~teurs were c . ptured by the Germans but escaped later with a res~lt that they did their job and all of them got away scot-free. INVASIO -------- hills ne r Ven af re an ne r t e se t ey ~va ne ~nd occupied a place cal l e d C olli, one mi l e and a alf ahead of their previous l ine. On the right win g of the av nee on Rome, the British are d riving ahead throu g . a blizzar advancing through he snow covere d apennines for three miles and occupying several inhabited placed on the way. Near the Adriatic, the British and Canadians also advanced three miles and took a couple of towns. These latest British advances have driven a three-mile salient into the center of the Nazi defense. In Italy apparently, Field Marshal Rommel the Notion that General Eisenhowe~ intends to land troops further north in Italy the rear of tre German lines. For the~ azis have blocked the of Leghorn and Pescara, by scuttling ships. They rave a also dynamited all the piers to make it impossible for the allies to use them. Evidently Rommel visualizes another leap-frogging operation such as the British carr ied out with great success at Termoli on the Adriatic lNYA~!Q_ - 2 SEVEral wees a o. eanw ile, llie air force have struck a eavy blow at Rommel's com unicati o ns lines between Italy and Germany. A force of Flying Fortresses went~ Balzano, a big railroad junction onl fifty mi es ris side of the Brenner ass. And t ere they blew all t e rail installations into smitrereens. An t i s knocks out the main line to Austris forte time ~ T I N Z ------ The m ost mo v i n . st or y o f th e da y com e s from the ar De art me nt. T he sc en e , ~ th e 1s a d of Attu in the A l eutians, a-Mth e occ a sion/w:sa th e ba t t l e ~ finally sw e pt the Ja p anese out. For seve r al d a ys last ay, the J ap s h a d been . fi g ht i ng off all att e m p ts to di s lod e them from a key p osit i on , a pass in the mountains. D a y after d your men h a d tried to storm the place, and day after day they w ere driven back by withering fire. On May Twenty-Sixth, up jumped Private Joe½\. Martinez of Ault, Colorado. Shouting to his buddies to follow him, he climbed th a t'slope with bullets tearin g u p the ground all around him. The whole battalion follo w ed Joe Mart ine'z, and with . rifle fire an d hand y u p th e s l o e, ~ the attack T IE - ---------- bo ed don a ain . !:i1a Q . ai n one lone figure stood u p and started c i m b in the s 1 o pe . &D e-e,-me re • --Ag v i~ lJ, was Joe I's-a rt1. n e-,( £la &a ~ Co 1 or ado . A a in the men followed him. q-t:!'c l eaned out two trenches and re ched " the as h r e he still was under fire from the mountain rid es that surrounded it. But that didn't stop Joe, 11-e,,i; l:n~11v ~J:;':;_. the words of his commandin officer 1 in the official'citatlon:-- "Standing up on the ridge overlooking the pass leading into Chicahagof Harbor, he emptied his rifle into the Japanese positions just beiow and beyond the pass. Be was mortally w ounded with his.rifle still at his shoulder absorbin all enemy fire and permitting all units to move up behind him and successfully take and hold the pass ." So died twenty-three year old Joe artinez, A R T! Z - -------- · --- w ho u s d to wor k o n a f a r m on t h e s l o p es of the Roc k ies in ea stern Colora d o. And th a t'~s why the Army tod a y a w a r ds him th e h i g he s t tribute in its g ift, the Congressional M ed a l of Honor. - - l&A RIG NY ... -- --- Th e ~ e we r e fe tive cel ebrations at Nassau t oni ht after th e jury announce d the Count Al f re d del&ari g ny not g uilty o f the char 5 e of m urd e ring I his multi-millionaire f a ther-in-la w , Sir Har ~ y Oakes. The gaiety went far b e y ond Marigny himself and his pretty youn g wife Nancy. One dispatch reads th a t deMari g ny's butler was of champagne and brandy. And the celebr tion spread all over the town. o w d s in t h e . hot e 1 lobb i . s were like Ne ¥\ celebraters with members of the jury t t in the fiesta. The verdict was ••t no surprise after the charge iaigaAmade t~:1}-f jury by the presiding justice, Sir - ~ 't'\, Oscar Daly) l4 was almost ta~amount to a direct For order to acquit the defendant. lK~Sir Oscar announced that the prosecutio n 's case was entirely circumstantial that circumstantial evidence with gaps in it W G S no good whatsoever, and that the prosecution's case had three not a ble gaps. After that it would have been astonishin g if the jury had f a iled to acquit. The only MA IGNY - 2 ------- as to nishing part about the acquittal w s tha t it was not un animo us. T h vote was nine to th re e . a ;,aeided s ti n g te th~ v-erci i ot I--t. is-n-&t geaePall1 reali zcs ; o _ tl1 u crnunt rr-- t-hat British Jariee - -lttt-Y-e-p-t,h-e priv ileg e of addift-8. ~o ~he vePaict wbat is eallea a •pidar•, a tail t,.e. ~ thclt deei1ie11. Som times W... British jury will A throw in a an aci~comment~on . the conduct of the police Ot- I A . A . . ~ ~ tfi. ~ " ■ for the pros e cutionA In the Marigny case the jurors added a rider that Marigny should be deported from the B ahame.s. In the first fling of the celebration this acid note was overlooked. When reporters final l y •••gk got the ear of Marigny himself and asked him about it he said •they do not need to deport me, I will go gladly•. But lawyers observed that there was consider a ble question a bout •here he c oul d go. The ,, J dge, Sir Oscar Daly said no doubt the proper authorities will t ak e co g nizance of your re ques t regarding MARIGNY - .3 ---------- ----- the deportation•. But althou h Marigny is a Frenchman he was born on the isl nd of Mauritius, a British possession and consequently is a B~itish subject. So th ~ t rider of the i•• jury raises a nice legal point • • It s~ould be added that a rider to a jury's verdict is ~ot binding upon anybody. ( l J ~ ~ / ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~