GOOD
t
V NI G
•
V~RYBODY:
This is a big day in the history of the
Second World
lar.
On this day American troops crosse
,
the Gprman fronti
e
r and azz are tonight fighting on
the soil of the F~therland.
It was a division of the First Army of the
United States under Lieutenant Gene al Hodges that
bad th~onor~ The official announcement tells
us
they crossed in re
n
sonable
•*•
strength a
i
ew miles
(tree-er)
below Trier,
which the French know as Treves.
It
was one of the historic cities of old Germany, known
to the Romans in twenty-eight B.C.
It is full of
architectural remains reminding us
of
the days
when
it was an important outpost of the Roman
l ■ pire.
In
the Middle Ages and down to
d
mo
e
rn ti
e
s,
it
W
a
~
the
L
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see of
an
Archdioc
•
s
hoe Archbi
hops
ere also
lector
of the
Holy
Roman Empire. All of
which is
quites con ary to the
f ct that the Yanks have
invade
Germany, and b
gun
the lest
act
in the
drama
of the
European
·
ar.
tqday's
But there was another
*zk
thrill in
it••Jia
ne s.
The Nazis are pelting out of Northern Italy.
The Yanks of the Fifth Army to ay made their first
contact
ith the far-famed Gothic line. But
news
from
the frontier between
Italy
ands~
itzerland
indicates
that the Germans are holding onto the Gothic line
only long enough
to
get
their troops and their booty
through the Brenner.Pass.
about
We
have b
en hearing rumors
skat this for
some time. But the
story
from the Swiss frontier is
definite and circumstantial.
It reports that the
commander of Hitler's S.S. troops at
Uilan
announced
the evacuation in a speech to bis lieutenants there.
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LEAD
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The repo
r
t even names the officer who
m
ade the
announcement.
It quotes him saying the Nazi
authorities are carrying out their evacuati
o
n at
top speed. In the last ten days five thousand trucks
have
crossed the Brenner
Pass
carrying loot to the
Fatherland
and that S.S.
Commander is
quoted in these
words:-
•we are forced by pres
e
nt circumstances
to evacuate northern Italy, but I
promiae
you that
before long we shall return•r----1r-----------
Returning to F~ance
learn that the
Yanks
are also in the famous Maginot
have heard
that it was in a poor state of repair.
American
officers found long stretches of it in perfect•••••
condition.
In fact, they are in such good order that
i*xia
its big guns can
b
e turned if necessary, against
the Germans.
W!STEFN FRONT
----------------
The
British
toni
gh
t
a
e in Hol
la
n. Field
Marsha
l
Mont
omery's armored columns have smashed
thei
r
• y
across
the Bel ian frontier in
Md
Sjii!OUOidar
bit
of
ahsteg, -
If
~
flanking
aove
~
ent~aimin
g
for the northern end
of
the
fiazi'a
west
-
.!.all, the ••akest
,ndM
The Germans
■ z
never expected to
have to
d
efend the seventy
the wall in
that area.
'
definiteAns r
abo
,,
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/\
going
on along the ..!.es tern _!_ront because
a news
blackout so as not to ~ip off the
,
whet
4.•
i•
week
the Dutch Government in exile issued stories that
the British had then driven into th• Netherlands near
Breda.
But
Queen
Wilhelmina's
g
overnment had it wrong
Montgomery's aen
were
th~ not yet over the Belgian
frontier.
wh
e
re they actually broke through
was
northeast of
a
town called Bourg
L e o p o l d . ~ - -
....
I E
... S
....
T_E
_Lf.!!
O
T -
They
had
a
hard
fi
ht
to
do
it becaus
e
the
Germans
resisted with everything they had, fighting to prevent
Montgomery from widening his br id eheads
O\'er
the Albert
\
Canal.
But this time it
ts
official and accurate.
'
V o n ~ h a v e done the job again, and have advanced
as far as the lscaut Canal, at Eindh"l!ven.
~ . j . .
few
~
ailes
now stand between
the ■
and the frontier of Bitler'•
Reich.
So furious was their assault on the
German
defense
line at the Escaut Canal that they captured the
bridge intact.
Over that they poured their
armor
and
self-propelling
guns.
While
the British
were
accomplishing this, the
U.S. First Army under Lieutenant General Hodges was
advancing on
a
solid front of a hundred
■ ilea.
One column
.
r111k~
rithin five miles
o~er■ any.
In fact, the
secret Atlantic radio said.._ First Army patrol had
A
nu.,-
/4.
t.f{
already crossed the German frontier,Asl a
fad
~
which
the
but
which
s unds much better under
its old French name of Aix-la-Chapelle,
the
ancient
~
capital oXEmperor Charlemagne, the watering place
where
the field marshals of Augustus, Tiberius and other
Roman
Emperors
used
~
-c,
&_
~ ¼ . / Th
,
~
e
~~
to g o _ t ~
d i
~
their arthritis.
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..
~..&Na-
American
front stretches all the
way from
~~)
the Eupen area of Belgium to the northern border of
France.
On their way to German soil, the First,Ar•Y
set free the City of Luxembourg, capital of the tiny
~
grand
duchy.
That tank coluan is~only nine
miles away
from the Saar Basin,
upon
which
the Bitler machine
depends for a large part of its coal and iron.
Correspondents tell us that something big is
brewing on that western front, a heavy hammer blow at the
Nazi
defenses,
but naturally they are not able to tell us
wher6:':f.that
\■
the reason for the partial
news
blackout.
if
General
Eisenhower
was in Brussels yesterday, conferrin&
almost
all day lon
g
with
Field Marshal
Montgomery.
WE
STERN
FRONT -
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P
a
tton's men h
a
ve been h
a
vin
g
the fight of
lives, hol
d
ing
o
nto the five bridgeheads they have
est
a
blished on the other side of the Moselle River,
a fight that
has now
lasted eight days.
Hitler's
generals
threw
their crack divisions into wave-after-wave
ot
counterattacks on our Third Army.
Patton's line held,
A t - ~
o
iad-e-l
but was unable to advance until today.~lhsrtl,
attww
assa
•
~
A
Patton broke the stalemate on the Moselle River line,ir
open~ blazing new attack south of Raney, and sen~•
A
Colu■ns
in a
curving drive behind the two German
1trongholds at Nancy and Metz.
The crossing of the
Moselle is now hailed as one of the m~jor operations of
fl~~~~
~La.t
~~
J,;,,ithe
war.
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Further'north alfo, the Nazis are d~ing
·
·
everything they can to prevent a breaklthr
o
ugh :,-their
~
line in northeastern Belgium.
Through a broadcast from Paris
we learn
today
ESTERI FRONT -
5
------------
that Patton's army is now getting its fu~l by airplane.
Be advanced with such speed that the en
g
ineers layin
g
a
large pipeline from Cherbourg/ couldn~t
,•••iblJ
keep up.
o -
- -
-
A story fro• Sweden has it that the Nazi high
command has replaced Field Marshal von Iluge
aa
l••••••i■
Coamander of the armies on the western front, with
another general officer, Field Marshal Yodel, toraerly
~,-,~~
Commander of the German forces dm the
•••t•r•
•~•n+zn of
~
....
----
,._ Our aen captured a copy of a Nazi order
forbidding German soldiers to commit suicide! The
general, whos
e
signature was illegible, said that
t
wo
officers and one non-coa had committed suicide in hie
corps.
This, said the general, was desertion. A soldier
baa no right to dispose of b i a ~ ; : ' r e ~ ' ; { o does
so
( ' ) '
.
'
~ /
is cowa
r
dly and despicable.
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SOOTBERll FRANCE
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F ~
~ o u t h , General Patch•s men have occupied
u
not on
y
Dijon,
bu
also
Veaoul, which is~l'A
a
short
distance fro• the fortress city of Belfort, near the
German frontier.
If you
•f'M
look at your map,
you
wil
observe that
Dijon
is alaost two-thirds
of
the
way
fro•
Mars
eilles
to the northern frontier of France.~
give
us
a
fair idea of the progress
made
by that Seventh
1
d ho• c
J
o
I
e
t
la
•i
a
P •
t a •
j
a■
1
t
i
s
a
w
1
l
t&
Pa
1 1
ii
o
?:a
Sl+twt
as.
Belfort is
of
vital importance
coaaands
and defends the approaches to the
Tlat-lli
an open stretch between the two
of
the
Vos es ana the Jura.
Through
classic roa
for armies aovin
s~ap;;-
At
I
•c
••
·g
,t
1
1
1i1e~
F
ranges
is
a
and
eraay.
eeae
the event for which both General Patch and General Patto
have been striving so hard. They J·oin d
f
e
orces
•est
of
Dijon.
Officers r
p
resenting the two
formally at a pla
t
e called Som~b~e~r~n~o~n~-=-------------
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This drive of
the Yanks
and
Frenchmen
under
Patch's command has been one of the spectacular
successes
~
of the
war.
The Seventh
took less than a month toAirl••
~~
/\all that distance through France for the mee:ing
with the
~ -
~
~ l
Third~ Accordingly, there isAan unbroken front of six
hundred
miles
in
western lurope, all the
way from
the
Mediterranean to the Borth seH-iong that front are
~
fiYe
Allied
armies
poised for the final grand
assault
• Hitler's
Reich.
But Patch's men still have to complete their
race to Belfort, to take the fortress and shut off the
escape gap for the remnants of the German Nineteenth
Ar■
In
the
air over
Germany,
Uncle Sam~s Eighth
Air Fore~ today fought the most apectacular aerial
battle this war has yet seen. An airmada of one thousand,
seven hundred and fifty
American
craft flew over to
bomb
~~~-
the last of the oil reserves that
Bitler
hasA They
attacked refineries at several places in central
Ger■ any,
one near
Leipsig,
another near Hannover.
And for the first
ti ■e
since D-Day, the
re ■nants
of the once mighty Luftwaffe came up to
■eet
our airmen. They turned out in terrific strength, with
fighter planes and rocket planes, in
groups
of twenty
to twenty-five.
It was the answer to the often asked
.
question,
"Where
is the Luftwaffe?"
It was there,
but tonight not so much of itJw
Lae1u::.
Our pilots reported that the rocket planes
came at
the ■
with terrific speed, speed so great that
the enemy fighters had passed before the American
DOGFIGHT -
2
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_
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__
-tLJ-
gunners
could
fire.
Apparently~•
1:,:
spe d was too
fast to do much dama e,
because they flew right through
the formations
of Flying'forts and Liberators. And, in
~
spite of their unparalleled swiftness, our fighter planes
~~
defeated
them.
~fly
in
over the big bombers_,
were seven
hundred
and
fifty
Mustangs, Lightnings and Thunderbolts.
The
Mustangs were too good for even the rocket planes.
Our fighters alone shot a hundred and ~ f
the■
in the
air. and destroyed thirty-nine on the
ground,
making a
total of a hundred and ~ : - n i n e ~ t s does'11ht take
~
A_
into account the enemy planes destroyed by the gunners
of
the Flying Forts.
RUSSIA
.....
~---
Not only American troops but Russian
crossed onto German soil on this
sames ■
day.
For
ore than a •
e
k e have been bearing that Soviet
patrols were in East Prussia.
Those tales were
pre ■ ature,
but today it is official. Advanced guards
of the Third White Russian
Army
have definitely
crossed the river separating ?oland and East Prussia,
boae
of the German Junkers, the back bone of the
Prussian Officer Corps, the•••
■ en
who are never
satisfied unless they are making
war.
Today the war
has
been
brought home to~t~b!e!•~·~---------~--...... - - - -
USIA
----------
.
"
ca
c
Ea!
The Second
hite Rmsian
a
rm
h
e
s bro en throu h ring after ring of strong
Nazi
fortific
a
ti ns around
Lomza,
the fortress in northern
Poland which so far has protected East ,russia
fro ■
invasion by the Soviets.
Tae
epeaPbaad ef that,
wiles
of
tomza
1tsel~
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o
·
Other Red armies have forced the passes of the
•
Transylvania Alps and
axz■
are marching over the
Hungari n plains to Budapest.
4'hey
ha¥e
captured
a
a.trgng
point only
sixty-five mil•a
away
fro ■
tbe
famous
iren 1ate oa
~
th€
l).:anae
Liver.
Thoee part.icul
ar_
has
iaa
armies are
takiRg
_
tae
aiatoric road
by whiell
kvading armies
fre ■
the
east. lla'le
a&l'cbed
to Vieaaa..
t:>
In southern
P
oland, still another Red army has
captured the Nazi stronghold of Krasno, on the way to
Krakow. Throu
g
h Krakow lies the roa
d
to German Sile ia.
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ADD PACIFIC
-------------
~~,~
Admiral Halsex•
112:t:f_.
llee
■ afi:1
t-,_
first
naval attack
. t
tohf!""4M
on the Philippines. A task
force of carrier aircraft, protec
t
ed by cruisers and
~
destroyers pouncedAon Mindanao last fTiday and the
~~:~·;o. . ..;
planes fro• the carriers swept~~:~
fro■
one end
to the other.
ilxtxlkas
They sank or probably sank
at lea eighty-nine Japanese vessels. The,aircxaf,
M • ~ ~ f i v e airfieldaz;;.
Mi••••••·
c:ll~o
,
f
~
~ , . u
w-..-"-t
-'~-.£ .. '
waterfront installations. The greatest number of
~ J d ~
A
ships the~•• he•11e•er lost in a single
engage ■ ent.
8n its way, the task forte
ca■ e
across
1
Jap
convoy
off the northeast tip of Mindanao,
a
con•oy
of thirty-two heavyily loaded cargo ships}
'C:::fd
I?,-.
~
'ti~---..
~1.
·
~
fl"wVl--
lk
11
lo& L
f;,
1 t • 1 •
mt
Ip
z,
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~,.~, eight •••11 craft and•••, •••lle•
~•all-.
O:rn
-
•h•r•U
losses wer;lffght, ~ - losse
s
in surface
ships
none at all.
~ o a t s in
,._
veaselsj
the Pacific have sunk nine more Japanese
rl
-,.., inclu~ three
men-o-war~a
destroyer;
a gunboat, and an escort ship. 'h American
su~aarinea
~
have sent no
fewer
than seven hundred and thirty-two
"
eneay
ships to the bottoa of the Pacific Ocean.
CHINA
---
1111tl
h■tt:-new ■ fr ■ a ■
lrll•
Asia6'6r: :feODI
11111
- -
LJ
■
l.t
~
~~ ~
~
Japanese are
aaw
deeper1
into southern
China•than
they
~
'
~
have
been able to penetrate in
■ ore
than seven years
ot
war.
They are rolling
across
the Province of
Iwangai
and a r e ~ ~
within
aeventy ailes
of the
key ailitar,
c ~
I\
llr
I
ot
Iweilin.
There
the Aaerican
air force has it•
/\
K
larglbaae on the Asiatic continebt. The • # o ' •
araiea,
~ h a v e advanced a hundred and ten
■ilea
in ten
da71,
are
a ■aahing
ahead
so
fast that they bid fair to
take
~-tt.1:--
Iweilin
within a
week.
,
will be aerioas;tor ,_ if
the7
do,
t..6:tJ;
~
will
ha■per
our air operation•
again1t
I\
Japan.
You know the old l
e
gend:-
•As Maine
goes,
~
~
U-~
~
I
so goes the nation•.
k
has net. been
~~
·
tbe
1~thia year the formula will
ha•e
another test.
The people of
Yaine
pride themselves not
only on leading the nation i~ the returns, but also
in the
day
■ f
on which they hold the election.
They
•oted today, and people interested in politics all
oYer
the country are watching. The Political Action
Co ■■ ittee
of the CI O
went
out of its way to try
to
upset
Republican
~aine
traditions.
At the end
-
~
-1i,.,.~.,..')I:(.,. ~,,,--••·~
of the
day,
all four Republican
candidates were
leading
A
their
aaocratic
■t
opponents, particularly
two
who
•ere endoraed by the CI
o.
DEWEY
Republican
Candidate
1-.
Dewey
is in Des Moines,
at present on his campaign swing around the country.
W'a4'...ltr2
~
Re
~
Ht
■■ ke
••5::,
apeech.,
:Ila
Io-,
but he
t
0 1 ~ . i . 4 ~
newapaper ■ en
that the Roosevelt administration was eight
7eara in office while
tre ■endoua
~orces were rising
toward
war,
and did absolutely nothing to prepare the
A ■erican
people for war. At the end of those eight yeara,
Dewe7
continued, the lew Deal had a
li ■ping,
aaproducti•e econoay with ten
■ illion
uneaployed, and
an
ar■y
of aeventy-fiYe thousand
■en,~
H&~
f-
~
I ) ~ .
Dewey added that the
Ad ■ iniatration
no•
clai ■a
that it foresaw the war all along, foresaw that we would
be dragged into it.
Governor Dewey's train leaves Des Moines for
the west this evening.
caught hia s
a
yin
these words: •If you have a lot of
aoney, bet on it.• Tbe reporters were UDable to learn
whether the President was talking about the end of the
It.
war, tbe election, or the weather. We aay all baYe oa•
"'
guess.
CO FEE
CE
---------
President
R
ooseve
l
t
a
nd Prime Minister
Winston Churchill are now in
Q
u
e
bec, engaged in what
they call their •Victory Conference.•
Marshal Stalin
had
been
invited, but declined the invitation with the
-
)
explanation
that he could net le
a
ve
Russia
while
his
deYeloping
their offensives
lhite
Bouse
Secretary
emphasized
the point that this is e
a ailitarJ
and not
a
political conference. As
greeted the President
hi•
first words were: •victor1 is everywhere.•------------
.
lewa ■ en
asked Steve Early whether the two
chiefs of state would deal
principally
with the Pacific
war.
To which
Early
replied: •I think you
will
find it
largely so."
Newspapermen overheard one remark that
Mr.
Roosevelt
made privately to the Prime Minister. ThtY
BILI
COPTER
_____
.._.
___ _
from Berkele, California we
ear••
that
Henry
J.
laiser, the aan •e've b
_
en
earing so
■ uch
about in
&
ipbuilding is
going
t ■
into
production
of helicopter planes,
■ aa&
producti
o
n. And the
fellow
wbo ia deigning
the ■
ia nineteen year old Stanley
Biller.
Thia y o u n g ~ first &bowed hia aechanical
aptit•de in the
■ aking
of
ainiature autoaobilea.
Tbe fact that ainiature racers cost two hund ed dollar•
a
piece nettled young Biller.
So he went to work aad
d••eloped a aodel that coat twentJ-eigbt dollara-;;,d•
,icra.
And
now•~•• with the backin
6
of
Henry
J.
laiser e is
1••~
going
into the business of
aakin1
helicopters, t•in-rotored affairs.
Bia aodel will
'
/"2.--
b••• an o•er-all length.of twelYe feet.
According
to the atory
■ ••1
ezper·•
ha•e
praised the deaign.
It
•ill be so••
ai
ple that an7bod7 can learn to fly
it
in
two
!-ours.
S o ~
~ - 1 ,
Q,,.,.,_,J
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MINE
R
S
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The Convention of the United Mine Workers of
a . t - ~
Am
rica was enlivened today by a fist fight.
It
A
,tarted with an argument between a supporter of John L.
Lewis
and one of his
of insurgents~e
A.~
opponents.
There
is a
big group
liners who want• autonoay for the
•arious districts of the Onion.
The insurgents bad called a meeting to plaa
their
strategy for the fight against L~wis. They called
the supporters of Lewis the payrollers. The arguaent
beca ■e
hotter and hotter until finally knuckles fl••
and the meeting broke up.
Thereupon the leader of the insurgents in the
Union charged the supporters of Lewis with having
deliberately broken up their aeeting.
Be said that was
an index of how Lewis plans to run the Convention.
There were four hundred autonoaists at that
caucus, but it took only twenty-five of
1
i
break it up.
ew
8 ' 6
men to
In Italy, the Yan
k
s of the Fifth
Aray
have made
their first contact with the redoubtable Nazi Gothic Lint
i*9idi-
north of Florence. The
A■•rieana
epo11ed
the Sle•• Riur,
iaiPteea
■ ilea
f~o•
:eM~H•••~.-dt~i:n~taat.:::it~h~@,
--
■soo~anntt~a~i~n~s
~eyoD4~
One
division
captured Monte Mignano, eleven and a half
■ iles
north
of Florence, and Usella, fifteen miles north.
Other
units also aade advances,-"
/e.-r-t
-of
ttt Nlaety Seeeni,
»t.i ■
ien, a
ii-Y.:il
ioa coaposad
ent
i:r•l-f
negrcfi-tt,
p,ushed lbr••
~M-~~
. . . .
U
■iJes
beyaai
~ucga,
a,
tire
•Valley
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