!illlt_Ql-9.t __ b.!!X J.., T, ~ 6J~ ~ ~ t,/av. / ~I ,,,v The situation on the Wester ront is briefly this: Alon g the southern half of the line, where the Germans are still in France, the enemy is in Farther north, where our troops stand inside..,. Germany, the resist a nce is stubborn and bitter. At the extreme south, the French forces that have pushed to the Rhine have joined up with troops of the Amcican Seventh Army. The Americans captured the City of Sarrebourg, and today the famous French armored division, coamanded by General LeClerc, drove forward and effected a junction with the Americans. There is no confirmation of reports that the French, having reached the Rhine, have been able to bridge that bi g river. Farther north, General Patton:s Third Army is thrusting on - after having captured Metz. !!!T!&_Qf_g~BM!M!_~-- - p ~ ~ Melz~drove forw · rd today for a d vances of eight miles, and pierced the old Maginot Line at two points.(That 110s t famous and most futile of fortified lim s is all the more absurd today. tt1 11igh+,1 cl•fenses wer·e::- itlieaded t;e st; p ~ePmaas :fro a t.he Sa3t, and now• !t18Piee.ns are d:x i•ic.a=, 2 t.&Peuga ~Re ■ r ••• +.ae West, ta•;;:::; 1tt&1 P a ld es. Along ia ■ most of the Third Army front the advances are steady, nd the word is that for a hundred miles the Ge r man army appears to be in a state of collapse. Howev e r, the north e rn wing of Patton's army i ■ meeting with heavy resistance -- the point where it "tpushed into the Saar, t:o- German territory. me s are eavr ir ✓ rts and o n e ~ In the sector of Aachen, in the German Rhineland, Berlin ad m its that American troops have ~ driven l" new breaches in the Siegfried Line, smashing . forward for a mile at each place. The Germans declare that near Aachen is raging what they call "the greatest material battle of the war.w Material meaning equipment, armor, tanks, cannon. - WE S T E R N L_ _T --- says the r e is no sign of the Ger~a commanders trying to withdraw their armies across the Rhine, with the idea of using the broad stream as a natural defensive barrier. The reason, says the Suprem Comaafider, is that the Germans probably couldn't get their masses of men and machines back across the Rhine, the bridges of which are subject to Allied attack. WitJh bhe -lfmer-ie{arm and Brit.ieh holaing- ~mmaaa sf the sk4-es, \ae ermene can't iape~d o n ~ eridg.g..g_ aaa t h-erefoJ!e ar likel-y wo ■ ake Wle~, i-ff. . s Lanli a lWi-Wlseil' b - atte M the 1 i a @:P:: - So indicates Gener 1 Eisenhower. An ~ 1e adds that the b a ttle west of the Rhine will be a•• bitter last-ditch affair . .bd t{-e 6 ive thi s prescription for winnin g the WESTE R N F R O N T - 2 -- - ------- victory: "e'v e got to fi g ht like hell for it. Ho• let's do it.• 1 f ' ~ ~ - l l t ' N ! ' r i ...twu,,, al rt. AR t b~~ Eisenhower says he ant s m or e s u p p lies than he's getting.••• he ad~B,.._ "+ t"'1tittk \be eeldieY .aant.e more \a&a he 1 a satt.i:•I• All of which means more home p roduction - - and more home financing. We've got to buy more bonds, and work harder. FIST FIGHT --~------ war, and picture. Here's one o t · e extrca.adinary sto ies of the you c:;~mon your imagination to get the At th~front, in a shell blasted forest - a little American G. I. and a burly German Corporal sluggin it out with bare fists. No gun, grenade, or trench knife -- just the old primitive way of the fist fight. And all the while thirteen German soldiers, armed to the teeth, were looking on -- spectators oft pugilistic bout in No Ian's Land. Who won? The . German did! He was too big and strong for the little G. I., who was only an ambulance·man anyway. The German won the fight and then he and his comrades surrendered. It was all a misunderstanding. The Germana, after battling for days in the horror of shell fire in the forest, were thoroughly fed up with the whole thing And all they wanted was to see an American and give up. That was when Private Bob Reynolds, of Johnstown, New York appeared. The German Corporal approached him, throwing down his pistol andU>ssing away his helmet. He gesticulated that he wanted to surrender, but the G. I. got the wrong idea. Be thought the German - wanted him to surrender. Private Reynolds, as a stret·cber bearer, had, according to regulations, not even a pistol. But he's one of tbe fightiniest little guys in the Army. And, aa the German Corporal made motions to him, he came up swinging -- and the big Dutchman lad the fight of his life on his hands. As they fought, the German noted that the~- I. had his eye on the pistol the German had thrown on th• ground. Later· on, the enemy soldier told the story as follows: •r realized that he hadn't understood me and I kn w he was getting ready to pounce on the pistol, so there ~as nothin to do but fight it out with bare fis We wrestled and we fought. It was a very good fight•, adds the German, •and my men were watching. I was the stronger o t he two,• he adds, •and finally wore your !I§!_f!~fi!_=l=- ■an down, and sat on his chest.:fThen the German was able to convey the correct idea to Private Reynold and soon the G. I., somewhat bruised and battered, after the fight, was leading the whole German squad to the nearest American position --- as prisoners of war. ROSSI! - The Ru o sians a r e renewing their offensive in the Baltic stat es , w ith Mm::ow telling of the oaptare of a big island in the Gulf of R iga. And, at the same ti m e, Berlin reports that Soviet troops are on the aarch again in Czechoslovakia, driving a bridgehead acroas the Tisza River, near the town of Tokay -- the place where they produce that famous Hungarian wine, Tota7. AIR WA R -- A m onster air blo w was struck at Nazi G e raan7. today, an <l hit at that vital spot -- ~ ~ oil. ,,..fa-.~ two thousand, three hundred and fifty planes bombed " huge synthetic oil plants, particularly the one at lerseburg -- one of Germany's g reatest. ~hr• weeka •ge th•t ••11e oya+shetie eil plant» was alent•d, •nd lla•• ~, ■eiag Paia rea~l\ea in the greatest air battle ef th~ l•repeaa war=• fiye hua&Ped Nani pleaee a+,+,eakiag aa• ••e hunarei and eigat, \hree ahet. dewa. Today the bombers, twglve hundred and fifty of them, were escorted by the greatest force of fighters ever put into the air-- one thousand, one hundred .llu■ tangs, Thum erbolts and Lightnings. The previous record was nine hundred and fifty• -- ~ • eleven hundred. fhi• iaaieatea \he kind of oppoeitioa that., wae ex~eeted at the great eyathetie eil plant ef • -.reeburg. Cleuae ee'lePe'1 :tae i e.rget, aaa the seaG iag, ~= &ene by ine•Pe■eai. 7at be ••i &ca a~ W e haYe no~J•tx1aaKi leaaes inoarred 88 ~eth aidee in tbi ■ la~ee~ elaeh a~ Anti-airer ft fire was intense 1 and violen~~ battles were fought at great altitude and bitter cold - forty-three below up toward the stratosphere. se,enty-nine German planes were destroyed in the air and on the ground. Forty bombers and seventeen fighters .§.0PERFORTS The big Omura airplane works on the Japanese boae island of Iyushu, hit a g ain by B-29s, the Superfort~. And some of them struck at Japanese bases in China, Nanking and Shanghai. That was because of bad weather, which kept some of the Superforts from going all the way to Japan. So they diverted their bombs to targets in China. In the murky skies over Japan, the ~-29s assailing the Omura airplane plant, aimed their exploaives by instrument -- the targets being hidden by clouds. There was opposition -- a lot of it, fighter opposition. The army &tates that today the Jap air force put forth its heaviest opposition against the B-29s thus far. Big air'battles were fought, and the Japs claim that fourteen of the superforts were losses shot down. The real figure for our ~••■i-1,..._ if any, has not come in -- the data h a ving not yet been collected after the lon g flight. PHILIP l~ j;S - A report from the battle front in the Philippines read s as follows: "The real news is the weather, which is simply bogging the whole battle area down in a sea of mud.• And once again the word is -- typhoon. Since the first invasion landings on Leyte Islam, the Philippines have been swept by a series of thoae tropical tempests, and now another one is raging, turnini streams into rivers, flooding'roads, and making the jungle and mountain country a nightmare of mud. The · · 1 t . ~ . t th t J principa ac ion~was agains a apanese regiment which has been trapped near the town of Limon. ~ The Japs theri<,ar ■ ls&ssx■ kzlf hammered by artillery fire -- the guns roaring all day long in the roar of the typhoon. The latest is a dispatch from Leyte, which states th a t the resistance of the Jape in the Limon pocket, is nearin g what the dispatch calls - "the breaking point." The enemy is tryin g to bald the p ocket and reinforce it, but the net is closing the ring of fire around the encircled Japanese division. • One important feature of the Philippine invasion is disclosed in today's war bulletin fro ■ MacArthur, which reveals that American heavy bombers perate fighter panes. t ese, hav/ hit Jap sup ly center a g a~st an im p o and The N a vy toni ht gives a figure for Jap casualties in the Palau and Mariana Islands. In the American seizure of those two groups, the Japs lost sixty-three thousand, three hundred and ei g hty-ei g ht --- kille~ an~ three thousand, two hundred and sixty-seven captured. i.Ae d lspa1 it; ef the figu1 ea, -tot.. on Saipan, two thousand and sixty-eight. On the other hand, the battle for Guam cost the Japs more than seventeen thous a nd killed and a mere four hundred and sixty-three made prisoner. Fi g urin g the g eneral aver ag e, our troops have h a d to kill t w enty Japs for each one ca p tured - which e ives a n idea of the kind of bitter-end fi g hting it took to seize the s tr a tP. g ic a tol s in the Mid-P a ci f ic. CANADA ------ A startling thing hap p ened in Canada today startling when you consider the normal attitude of Ara) officers tow a rd the civil government. At Vancouver the major co~ m anders of the Sixth Canadian Division issued a declaration against an official policy of the Do~inion Government. The policy.concern• that much debated question of conscription for overseas duty. Ae t»hi4 a 1taaa aew ia Gaaaia, eelaiers 111: o are drefi,ei, ia Mae ~a\tles oYeraeae are velua\eere. There• s been a huge lot of catroversy a boat this, witb much demand that C&nada draft soldiers for th th Un ~-d Stat ~ es does Re0011t1, • • - e war -- as e u:: • whole thing has een scheduled to come CANADA - 2 --------- up for an official deb•te, and p o• in the middleof the crisis comes the action of high-ranking Canadian army officers:«'rn Canada, as ~ are supposed to take It discuasions, {re ~ in this c o u n t r y , ~ no part in political The C a nadian word is th a t the acti n of the com m anders is c a lculated to brin g the crisis to the CAIADA - L - breaking point. There may have to be a general election ~ile in the Dominion to decide the conscription issue. Wemu~ there is talk of an official inquiry, and even the possibility of court'martia~ • • " res-.:Lt of the stand taken by the high Canadian army cemmaars. c.1.0. - In Chicago the C.I.O. today reaffirmed its pledge of -- no strike in war time. At the Onion Convention .1.0. President Philip Yurray called the promise -- "a sacred obligation.• And the action that • was then taken was unanimous -- reaffirming the ~.I.O. •no strike" pledge. Toni g ht in . ashington, the Ohio Telephone Union rpfused to call off a strike that has crippled lon~ distance elephone communication throu bout the state~ Mitt the w alkout that threatens to turn into a natioriwide tele p hone s t r i k e . ~ ~ ~ , ~ - T h e Labor Board answer to the rejection is an ultimatum - ordering the Ohio strikers to return to work immediately or the government will seize the tied-up telephone system. The Onion Officers are given a deadline of ten o'clock tomorrow morning - to call off the walkout. fETRILLQ The aiddle name of James C. Petrillo is -- Caesar. An d the head of the ~usiciana Onion certainly has some of the dauntless qualities of his naaesake of a couple of thousand years ago. We may recall how Petrillo defied the War Labor Board, and rejected an appeal by President Roosevelt -- in the matter of tranacriptions. musical.At2aaa,aiatixx And he won out, when last weet s ■ two leading recording co~panies caae to terms to~~ tune.of four million c q . . . ~ ~ . The ancient Caesar ,-, ~ dollars.f,n ~ ~ said: •1 ca ■e, I saw, I conquered.• And l doubt whether th,i;ictory thus announced was worth more than four million -- or how ■ any Roman sesterces would that be? The new Ca~sarJ of the J(usicians 1 now goes ont-- new worlds to conquer. That, of course, is reminiscent of Alexander the Great who might have thought twice ~~ . . about t a ckling -- tbe~Yarines. But Petrillo goes right after the Leathernecks, and today demands thatfoomething be done ab out m ember s of the ~ arine Corps Band who give music lessons. fETRILLQ_.:._l The a rine Band, of course, i.a famous for the blaring of th• brasses.and the booming of the drums.~ _:--'- . . ~ lM. mus1c1ana a r e ~ on the clarinet, the big horn, an d the piccolo. And some of them, during hours off duty, have been pic~ing giving lesson s~This led to up so~e extra money by a protest by certain music teachers in Washington, who coapA.ined that the Yarine Band music lessons deprived them of pupil•. They appealed to Petrillo,and their plea is not in vain. H ••• i a &:Paw:d~lhPy -=ttat Petrillo ll,w demand.a-II ~hat music lessons given by members of the Yarine band •••• be stopped. At Y ar ine Corps headquarters they admit they - = : - ~ ! ~ e legal department is aating a study of the case. I suppose that when the original Caesar said a thing or two at one time or ~ another the Romans also ~onsulted th• legal department ' I but it ii•• didn't do much good. In the pages of En lish literature you will find a familiar crusty character - the retired British Army officer, grumpy and snorting. And today he rises to a new climax -- in the person of Major c. C. Adams, who served in India years ago and now is making life hard for the officials in charge of London ,arks. Major C. C. Adams, like most retired British officers, likes to take his•daily walk, and does it in Hyde Park. In times before the war, Hyde Park bad lot of rabbits wild rabbits, which dashed hither and yon. And the Yajor, taking his daily constitutio liked to watch the scurrying of the rabbits, wild and wary. During th~war-years the ~abbits disappeared, ~ hereupon the Yajpr complained to the Ministry. Bis daily walk was being spoiled because -- no rabbits. The dou g hty ajar was so crusty about it, that the Ministry finally said: •oh go ahead and put some rabbits in the Park again.•1fThey couldn't get wild __..,,... ones in wartime, so tame ones had to do 9 l!ttld solHt" You~d think that Major C. C. Adams would have been satisfied. But no. Today the London Part authorities were trembling under the impact of a new blast. They received the following communication from the irate Yajor: •Those are silly; fat, old rabbits,• l( he growls. They're tame, and just sit there eating cabbage leaves. Wild rabbits gave ■ e the illusion of being in the country, while these animals,• be snorts, ' g ive me the illusion of being in a zoo.• The London Government, in the middle of fi g hting a war, doesn't quite know what to do about it -- wild · rabbits being impossible to obtain, even to pacify a retired . _1) ~ . - .~~ .t::1-... I _-,_ army off i c e r ~ ~ - ~ ~ . , a g r e t secret was revealed this evening - th myst ry of what Presi d ent R oosevelt said in the pollin booth on Election Day. At the bite Sous ~~ late this afternoon, IDl:9111!!1'~ft it was a four letter word A beginnin 1 wi h g and ending with B· But he didn't use any other ~ord before it, didn't violate the Second Commandment, e-ian'4 ~ke t"t.• ft'Nt el +she Js8'!1Q i:11 wa:i:a.._ The excitement began when a magazine reported that., hen the President went to vote for himself at Hyde Park, something..,.,_ wrong with the voting machine and he exclaimed,•the so-and-so thing won't work." ~ T h e result was a protest from Ministers of the Gospel f a r a nd wide, who were scandalized to he a r that the Presid nt h ad used such l a n guag e. !Mo •P"•~ The true version, as disclosed at the bite House, is as follows: The President says that when he entered the voting booth to try the machine, it w as locked. He tried it twice, but it wouldn't bud e, whereu on h called to the election clerk, and told him, using a four-letter wo r d , but not violating the Se c ond Comm~ndment - that t he machine wouldn't work. So t he story of the pres ident i a l cuss word as i t appeared in print,, was a M !,'8 MIIIQ. @WI ~ blankety blank lie. ---- o---- IASHIIGTON -------- Be e's a report on a new disease. ) It ts called Washington Foot. The distressing malady is an epidemic~ the national capital, but no doubt it occurs elsewhere. Washington Foot/is caused by the amount of standing ix in line that people have to do•* in the city on the banks of the Potomac. For example, in thayhuge and bewilderllg labyrinth called the Pentagon Building, thousands of employees stand in line for blocks to collect their pay checks. They line up again to cash them. Then they liue up to spend the money:f wash·ingtonians get in line to board a bus or get into an elevator or a restaurant or a danceball. And of late so11ething new has · been added lining up in front of cigarette vending machines. f The clinical report on Washington Foot comes from 0nited Press correspondent Frederick Othman, who describes the s7mptoms bu3ions, corns, soured as follows: "Fallen arches, dispositions, d o m e s t ~ dj.vorce incre a se in the~~•••K&~rate, and unsolved murders." WAS BINGTO!L.::...:2 1Tbe newspaperman says from his ~iropodist, he has the scientific ax facts who t r e a t e d ~ journalistic asbington Foot. And he adds th the wanted case of to give the doctor's name as his authority. ~ut the chiropidost said -- Mo. Be explained that he would like 1 to see bis naae in the papers, bu , t he's afraid tllt patients if he got the publicity, the line-up ofA'•,••'1 in front of his office weuld be so great that it would add to the severity of the epidemic of Waa.ngton F o o t . ~ _._,R,_.1-t-+- W\. 0 PREJ0D ICE ----~-- In the news tonight something is being said that desetves quotation. It concerns the American principle of tolerance, and is contained in a letter written by Joseph N. Pew, Jr., Vice President of the Suli Oil Conapany, to Congressman Anderso · n, Chairman of the Rou s e Campaign Expenditures Committee. Joseph N. Pew denounces what be calls -- •appeals for any cause based upon religious or racial prejudices.• 1Fae states: •To me such tactics are des~icable and un-American and deserve universal condemnation. They ' are utterly foreign to my faitb--::l our Constitution A and institutions, aai the preservation of which has been my only reason for taking an ~ctive part in politics. he freedom of wor s hip, freedom of the press, and racial tolerance," J. N. Pew goes on, "are the keystones striven of American liberty, which I have~stzs•~ to defend. When they are destroyed," he adds," the whole structure of our freedom falls."