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Dispatches from tu
r
Y
e
_
o
t
th
·
the
Ger an
"
hi
h
co
man
!_;ex
p
e
('t
w
o
Al ied inv
ions~at the
s
a
me
time.
They think one att
ac
w
ill o
me
some
here
on
the
western
coat
anywhere from
enmark to
southern
France,
an
d
anoth
e
r in the Bal
ka
ns. The Nazis have
been
evacu
at
ing the inh bitant of th
e
coast
in
Belgiua
just above
the Str its of Dever, and flooding
huge
1F
tracts of
land
in western Flanders.
An~the
Geraans
claim to have information that the Allied
Mediterranean
f
1
e et
is now
near the co
a
s t of Gree c e .
A 1
a
o .J
that the
Allied generals have been concentrating large
numbers
of American and British troops in the Middle East.
In Great Britain, the government is taking
even greater precautions
to
prevent
the
leaking
out o
information.
Officials
have warned
government
employe
not to say a word
z ■ f ■ z
regarding th movements of
ships,
troo
p
s, guns
and planes.
The
Regional
Commis
ion r of
the eat coast h
a
ked members of
Parliament to
pr
vail upon
heir constituents not
to
ta
_'
abo
u
wh
t
they
see,
an
·
above
all
not
to write to
anybody
of
what they see
oin
on
around
them.
Th
mo
im
o
nt
news
out
t
he
ai
w
rover
Euro
e
toni
t comes
by
a
y
o
~
Switz
rand.
A high
mi
it
;:
y
of
i
c
i
1
of
on
e
o
f
the
Ax
is
owe
rs
is
quoted
as
dmittin
th
a
t ~
Allied
bombers
have
wreaked
such
havoc that war production in Hitler's Reich
will
collapse
early
.
~
>
1n
the f
a
ll.l\That ts great
and welcome news~if true
'lut,the
lwias
reports do not t 11 the identity of the man
who s id it. How ver, they add circumstantial details.
They quote this high office as declaring that in the
8 fall
of
Nineteen Forty-Three he inspected
some
fifty
German factories
-tla.,,f-
had been bombed.
In none of
them was destruction com
.
lete, neither had the raids
put a sto
p
to production anywhere.
In
.
some
cases they
had reduced
permanent
factory output on an average
of
twenty
per
cent, sometimes thirty per cent.
But, he
adds, wherever targets
were
bombed more than once,
the
possibi
ity
of
:
erm
n
e
nt
disable
e
nt
wa
reatly
incr
a
ed
.
He
th
r fore c 1 u
la
ted
that
if th Allied
raids
are
continued
and
inten
ified,
they will re
a
ch a
oint
e
rl
y
in th
f
a
ll of
N
i
neteen Forty-Four,
where
the Ger
ma
n
syste ■
of
production
will
be so disorganized
that it wi
1
be no lon
~
er possible
for the Nazis to
send even
a
■ inimua
flow
of
supplies
to the troops.
On
to
oft at comes
a statement
froa
an
American officer
w
hose opinion we al
~~
Lieutenant General Jaaes
H.
Doolittle~The Bazi Air
Ara
~
,,
these days is
losin
more than it can hope to replace
-
more by a substantial margin.
Since late in February,
it has been losin
g
so
heavily
that probably there are
no real reserves
left
on which the German
generals can
~
draw.
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6
The air w r went on
~
ith even greater violence
Fortresses
and Liberators
visited
.
Fr
2
nce
' B
el
ium
'
AI
A
--
.
the
Saa
r distr
i
ct of Ger
ma
ny,
a
n
d
they even went as far
ea
t
a
a
l
a
c
e
the Ger
m
ns
ca
ll Aa
c
hen,
a
nd the French
c
11 Aix-la-
C
p l
l
e.
Thr
o
u ha broa
d
cast from Ber
l
in, we learn that
some
o
f
the Am ri
c
n he
a
vy bombers atta
ck
ed
southwestern
Ger any. This probably brin
g
s the total of Allied
warplanes in action today up to
ac10
tk
•
three
~~-
thousan¾ Toda7's daylight raids followed on similar
night visits by the Royal Air Force last night.
And tonight's
news
fro■fussia
also
deal■
exc usively with air r
a
ids. The Soviet generals••*
sen
o
u
t large forces of lon
range bombers to
attack
Nazi
fortifications and r ilroads in Po
l
and. In
fact,
the r
a
ids there h~ve been so intense that the Germans
are beginn
i
ng to
e
vacuate Lubin, a
ra
ilway junction
"
a hundred an
n
eight miles to the southw
es
t of
Warsaw
a
n
d
se
ve
nty-fiv
e
miles southw
es
t of Bre
s
t-Litvsk. That
r
e
port comes from the
P
o
l
ish t
el
e
g
r
a
p
h a e
nc
d
is
not o
f
ficial.
Y n
1
roo
dit rr
a
n
i t ~
t
e
thir
d
l
ar
t
di
a
ter
.
it
.
be
t!
ep
~
e-11
to
i'
or
ce
~
0
1n
,
our
the
w
a
r
b
an
.
Th
w~r
ep
a
rtmen
t
1
u"-verr
~
about
it,
e
cept
t
.
t
four
un
ed
a
nd
nin ty-
-
eight soldi rs wer
lost, mis
ing, presumably
A
1,
per·shed.
The
I r Department doesn't
ell us
whethe
r
enemy
submarines or aircr
a
ft
destroyed
the transpo t.
Other
ships carrying
Am
e
rican fighting men
bav e
come
to grief, but in
most
cases the
loss of
life
has been
small.
And that
is all we know/
about this•• disa ter.
~'•s
oat
n
a
1 ■ 1
.,
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UWe
a woritiq.g
over
~ • O
;
&S
&
Ai!i
milI
on
lmu,?'LiMe■
101,
Wll
•
JQ1J..
f;a
y
omes
s ory abo t a
jungle
battle
on
1,
ou
R
ainvil
e
I
s
land
in the
Solom ns, and
most
o
f it is
about
the
inv
luable
ork done oy Staff
Sergeant Carl
&
Schonhut of Youn
sto
n, Ohio,
an
his
·
itchen
crew of
twelve men.
!hey are
art of the Thirty-Seventh
Uivision
which crushed the Japanese at the Torokina beachhead on
Bougainville.
Most of tka•• three
days
they passed
lugging a munition
and
mannin
machin guns along the
secondary defense lines.
In between those jobs, they
were pourin
coffee, cooking meals a n ~ ·
•
,tf::J,,~
'
the
men
tn the
front
linee.
A th
height
of
the
battl~
in one
d
y,
Schonhut
an
d
his outfit served
more
than
t o th us
a
nd,
five
hundred hot
me
ls. All
tk••~ through
the
battle
they were under
a
he
.
vy
fire
from the
J
a
p
n
e
0
t
But
o
oul
ven hint
the
ki ch
e
n
1
ht b
e
ov
e
a
ck
a
! i t
1
urth
r.
onder
just
h
n
he
Ser
nt
nd
his men
s
lept.
The most
pl
a
usibl
_
ans er
is
h t
they didn't!
or c
uld the
S
e
rg
ant shout:
"Come and get
it!•
The lads in the pill boxe
s
had to stay wh re the1
ere,
ating
hat
e
ver
a
s passed
up to them. For two
days one
~an
h d food shove
to him at
the
end of
a
stick, the only
ay to re ch
him.
There
was
one stage of th t battle
when a
unit of suicidal Japanese came so close the1 threatened
to
penetr
te the Ameri an lines.
Sergeant Schonhut
organized his outfit into a re erve defense line,
where they stood watches
evecy
nibht.
The next day, Japane e fire was threatening to
damage a r
a
t ion dump.
The
Sarge and his c
e
made
their
ay
through
the
fire
to the ration dump
nd
return
e
d
a
hundred yards over
a
steep muddy hillside
with
foo
d
they
lv
·
ged.
____
JillL.::_J
n
ot
h
r
t i e the
men in the froat line sent
out a
distre
ss
call
for
more ammunition.
Again the
arge
nd his
men
went
to
the
ammunition
dump,
which
was under heavy Japanese mort r
fire,
and for two
hundred yards,
aero s
a slipp
e
ry and treacherous hill,
they carried
hells
for the
American
mortars.
Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Root, battalion
c
om:nande~of
the
Thirty -Se ve th Di vis ion,
says
it
1r
·
as
a
sight
to
see
those cooks in action. Some actually
i
11..
l
/
i,.,,
ti..
f
<
carryina pots of coffee
wit• the
ammunition, to the
men in the front
line.
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On
r
th
i
l
l
o
f
th
ate
J
se h Pu
l
it
z
r, the
gre t
ub
:
i
hr
o
f the
NEW Y
O
R
'
0
LD,
the Advisory
Board
of
the
School
of Journ
ali
sm at
Columbia
has a
number of
r zes
te
award every
year.
From time to
time,
~~~
the deci ions
of
the jud es have~r.,Yctked
a
za11 ■bvr
o!
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sa
a:
►
oe
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But there
cert
inly will
be
no quarreling
with
on
7P..
deci ion they announced today.
The Pulitzer
Prize for the most distinguished correspondence during
Nineteen Forty-Three was awarde
d
to a newspaperman
ot
whom I have never heard a word of unfavorable criticisa,
.
7P
\
Ernie Pyle of the Scripps-Boward papers.
I
can . .
t
think of
any
newspaperman who
has so richly earned for
,,~,
himself the affection o
the
Americ n
eople
as Ernie~
His
unassuming, undramatic daily
reports
have brought
~ - 4 > - ~
us in
simple
lnat
-tvR11tll"-. langua
A
~~
~
Amer·c
n
d
ou
ghboy
1
~uet-ae
he :i"s-en
01--~T~-
E r n i ~
l
e
a
rned to under
s
t
a
n
A
our
fi ht·ng
me
n
t
e
the story of the
~~
the
/
fig"-iQg-iinea-.
PUL
I
T
~
-
-
t
s
r
ce a
n
d
or the unr
~a
r.
onabl
e
s
u pre
s ·
on of
in
f
rm
i
on t
o
which the Americ
a
n
p
eo
p
le are entitled.
So s
a
id the Advisory Boa d of the Columbia School of
Journa
l
ism.
E
e
have been
rin
a
ou
airpl
n
made au
t
o
f
p
as
t
i
c ,
a
n
to ay
,
t
D a
y t
o
n
,
0 h
i
o
, t he
w
o rd is
th
a
t the
ray
ha
finished
rnakin
flight t
e
·
·
ts of a
1
s
tic b
a
ic
tr
a
inor.
That is,the fuselage is of
pla
s
tic, reinforced
L
y
lass,
ith a core
of balsa
wood.
The story
i
th t
the fli
ht
te
J
ts ere a
complete
success. Also
that the new
material
is
fifty
percent
stronger
th
a
n metal,
and
eighty percent stronger
than
wood.
This is not the
first
time
plastics
have been
used in
the ~uilding
of
aircraft;
but it's the first
for
time
on
such
scale.
So
much
■ f
the
pl
a
ne.
i
---
IUG
LL
---
....
An ry
words
are
e
fro
m
P
erto Rico, hurtling
aro nd the much discussed head
of
New
Deal Governor
Rexford
Guy
Tu
w
e
ll. Some of the angriest
of
those words
come fro•
ao?H!
44,A . .
\aaa
the Resident Commissioner of
the
Is
1
an
d
, the Honor
ab
1 e
Bo
l
iv
a
r Pa
a
n.J
W'li.
w
si
t so far
as
to aay th
a
t if the American flag had not been waving
over Puerto Rico. its people would have re•olted long
ago against the ex-professor
of
the Bew
Deal.
Pagan
4
says further that rugwell made hiaself so unpopular
"
among the people that he dare not
go
anywhere without
~-
an
araed guard. ,(_Tugwell's attitude, says the Resident
Commissioner, is nothing short
of
dictatorial and can be
t h d
1
b
H
·t
-
d
II
l?Z~h
h
ma c
e
on
y
y
1. J.er an
usso 1.n1.I\, en
e drives
down the street, two or three motorcycle cops clear the
way, and he is followed by two other
~••z••
cars filled
- ~
ith
a
rm
ed
guar
ds, a u d ~ • tbwa atitt
m
or
motorcycle
..
The
indignant
Commissioner
oes on to specify
that be ore Tu well went to
Pue
to
Rico,
there were
tw lve thousan
overnment
employees,
and now
there are
~ - 6 ,
tw n y thousand.
Some
seven
thousan
of
themAhave joba
that are purely
imaginary, wandering
through
towns and
countrysides,
doing
not~ing_ ~ t
spread
political
& i i . ~ ~ ~ ~
propaganda
for
Tug~ell and the -0pular-Coaaunistic Part.,J.
>
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Those
twenty thousand
state
employee ■
of
Puerto Rico,
be
points out, are
as aany~),f.•;;1! the
state of
Ohio. And
whereas
the taxable property
of
Ohio
is estimated at nin~-~
~
h ~
billion dollars,
~
--rG..
-G
)J-1!0.411,
1o
Puerto Rico's
lilt
only three hundred
millions./'l•gacll>
~ ~ ~ - - f ' ~
/\ha
eight
motor
cars at his
disposal,
thirty household
servants,
nd
gets
his household expenses_;>lus
a salary
~~.
~-t£-}--lA.-(
of
ten
thousand/\iellar ■•
He lt*'A_
lives in
a
three
hundred
year old Spanish
c
s
tle
as
arge
as
the
'
bite
~.J
l
~
~
~
~
House,~auch more
beautiful,
ndlo:w:iy
last
year five
i
h
un
r
e
d
t
~
u
,
n
d
was
s
p
n
t
011
~
fo
r
rep
a
i
rs
a 1
one
•
to-.;;
WeTax
still
h
av
e to
her Tugwel
•s
sioP
of the
A D
-~--
There promi es to
•
e
some
excitement
in Con ress in the next few days over the seizure of
ontgomery
Ward
by the Govern
m
ent.
The resolution
demardin
an investigation will be reported tomorrow,
and the debate will get under way on Friday.
Democratic Senator Pat McCarran
of
leTada
had aome sharp things to say
a
bout the Ward case
today.
The
q•
stlon
that
bothers Congress, he said, ia whether
we are preserTing a goverament of law, or whether we
have~tepped over the line and tried to set up a
governaent by men. McCarran is Chairman of the Senate
Judiciary
Co ■■ ittee.
Be has had an investigator on
.
the spot ever since last Thursday, and that investigator
will
return
W~dne•day with
a full report.
What
is
more, said
McCarran, his
Committee is putting together
information
from among a
number of cases that the War
Labor Board has handled.
President
R
oo
s
evelt is looking fine. So
says the Fir
s
t Lady, after spendin
g
a few days
with
her husband -- some
w
he
r
e in the South.
A
lthough she
.
didn't
g
ive an7 date for the Preside4's return to the
bite Bouse, she said it would be in a
week
or so, as
soon as the doctors give their okay.
The doctor
~
,
Mrs.
Roosevelt said, are anxious that he should not
leave
until he is coapletel7 rested.
The three press associ
a
tion representatives
who are cov
e
ring hia also say he seems to be in fine
shape. The7 haven't been sendin
g
back any news,
b
ecauae
t
hat was the underatanding when they accoa
p
nied
him.
-
SHA
-
In the
liv ly City
of
Chic
a
o is
a
fifty-fiYe
year old
ent
eman
n
a
med
Henry Sh
w,
whose face is
decorated
with
a pictures.ue beard,
just
like
bis
namesake in
London,
eighty-five year old George Bernard
Shaw.
Henry
Shaw
of Chica o crops up in the
news toda7
as his London nam~s
a
ke often does.
But G.B.S.
■ akes
the
front pages not so auch becauie of his beard, but becaua
of the words he occasionally utters.
The publicit7
attending Chicago's Ir. Shaw is due principally to hie
beard~e wore it walking down Clark Street, and that
'
would not have been ao remarkable but for the fact that
he wore nothing else.
He was just about to jump
fro ■
the
Clark
Street bridge into the none too salubrious
wa
t
ers
of the Chicago
River
.
._Gne
of the bystanders
f~QQ __
~
flood
news
from the
iddle West.
Old
Yan
River bas broken over his lev~es at several points,
recked homes and damaaged
spring
crops to the tune
-
of millions of
dollars.
At Chester, Illinois, the
crest of the Yississippi is higher than it has been in
a hundred years.
The Missouri is also on a
rampage.
Red Cross officials estimate that more than a million
and a half acres are under water in Illinois and
issou
Levies have
given
way although the authories have ten
thousand soldiers at
work,
plus thousands of volunteers.
~
, - . most
i ■
ort
a
nt news ab
o
ut the
warless
in
A
~~
Bur11a is that Am rican tan
k
• ar
e
l\!l•i•g iut,, action.)
with General Stilwell's army.
,~11
l~Jlie
•hat
American t
a
nks have been used on the continent
fro ■
Mountbatten'• headquarters repor
that the Jape in the area around
Iohi ■a
have
been
~~
ahoYed into a pocketj A.British Imperial troop• are
attacking in tour columns,
fro ■
different directiona,
one of
the ■
with tanks and artillery.
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