.,,. 7 L _,;;l},, ., ■ Ii, note tonight one significant geographical fact about the island of Attu. That small craga bit of land has a sort of tail thrust out to the east, and at the place where the tail begin• are two bays - one to t,he north and one to the south-_ These baya cut in rather deeply, with only a few ailes of land between a ~ the■ A• acak al Jw A'••• ~-~~ f i Te ■ 11••~,A.: L I■ ,.., at ,he i•l•ni ~, • aarrew- •l••\•k .t laad, I~•~._ a Si: . ~ •s- •h•r• the fighting baa been going on, a••~ diacloaed tc, 1 111 la: J Lal by Secretary Inox toda7. , ~ I : ~ the north ir 111st Boltz Bay. •· i JO To the south - Massacre Bay; which naae aay be taken as expressing what is going to happen to the Jape. ~ The American attack on Attu D- directed against these A two bays - a t w ofold assault.•• iki•g ct tM-m>t•h ATTU - 2 o.a1t ••• \ae eautb ooaat ' 1••• h ~ee aaP•o•••L The aain landings were preceded by a aaneuver that sounds like a thriller indeed. Today~• Ravy coa■unique put• it in these terse ailitar7 word1: •The occupation began with scouting parties ,, landiag at Blind Cove, Boltz Bay. 1eee4N et•~•~ Scouting parties landing at Blind Cove - in those word• yo~ can eenae a nerve-tingling episode of war. le are told that the Japs were taken by aurpriae, 10 we aay assume that the scouti~g parties got into Blind Cove secretly and undetected. Then, they went • reconnoitering - in advance of the aain landings. R •••ml& like e _ o ■ eiaing new ia \lie arts ef inTai-i:ns • t-t·ltl?:'a; {l party of the toughest of the tough, getting ashore, stealing toward the enemy under cover and ilID - 3 tro ■ warship• and boab1 tro ■ planes:--\the Jape blasted tro ■ the beaches. Both landings were luccessful, and now A ■ ericaa ~ troop•A~ on the north shore and the south 1hore ot the narrow atrip of land, with only a few ■ ilea between th••- leas than five. lot far to go, but a rugged ridge J. aeparateA them. 111 tlae •••••• •• 111 • N-lrfl"lnl"li~~"Pll!Ni ~ forbidding and precipitous ridge. It has no naarl. rises twenty-five hundred feet, ',A ,nd is the usual bleak and zagg■ rocky ~•rrier that you find in the Aleutians. This was what our soldiers had to AllL.:. 4 r pu1hed toward each other - to effect a junction. -- The Jape, taken by aurprise at first, rallied and put up a fierce resistance. They were atrongly placed, with ■any ■ achinegun po1itiona a■ong of the rockapl the rid1• - and they foqht fiercely • ., So you aee the taak that baa faced our troops ever 1tnce theJ landed at Attu aix daya ago. They've had to capture the hi1h, and fiercely defended ridge, to Joia forcea. After days off Yiolent fighting, they have • ■ashed the Jap positions, and captured ~he ridge. !eia,r'• coa■a•l•• ine - whi AJ:TD - 5 91 \he A■e1_1_,_•_•_i_•_•_•_•~• el At.~ warned that there will be heaTy fightina before thereat of the ieland i• captured. 8ee1eta1J la•• .i:., ••• 2 ~ 11!91 wit.a, 1'wt al10 t;ae weatkcr,';t lttu i• co•ered with heavy fog for an average of two hundred and ei1hty daya a year, and Secretary Inox atated today that there baa not been a single day of clear weather since our forces landed: Aaa tlL . . • • • ~•••1 a••• i • a r tu1 • • , ,u ■btngspla•••• Secretary Knox iaplied that if only one bright day caae to Attu, our war planes could awoop o•er the island in huge force and boab the Japa enough - \I"\ to cripple the defense. /\ ~ --4-() le boabed Wake Island aga1·n• &k& A ~- A • _££ announced by the lavy today. The assault was ■ade b7 Ar■7 Liberator boabera, which flew fro• lidwa7 - ao doubt. That aeana nearly twelTe hundred ail•• - a long distance for a boabing raid. And the weather waa •••••• bad, etora7, rain and fog. There was conaiderabl• • flahter oppoeition. The equadron of Liberatore ran into a awar■ of twent7-two Jap Zeroa. Two of these were shot down - another probabl7. Thia ia the ilfth tiae Aaerican bo ■bera haTe blasted late - since the Japa toot it early in the war. And a it waa another blow to avenge the ■arinea whoae brave defense ahed glory on the na■e - Wake Ialand. !QSPIT.A.1, SH.IP Today Australia bitterly denounced the latest Jap atrocity, the torpedoing of the Auatralian hospital ship, CEITAUR. That vessel, with three hundred and 1ixt7 aboard, was navigating in ■ trict accord with that cl•••• of the Geneva Convention, which applies to hospital ahipa The en\, powers had been notified that the CEITAUI was A sailing, and the craft was unprotected and brilliantq lighted. Jet fort7 ■ ilea east of Brisbane, the Japa torpedoed the ~EITAUI, which sank in three ■ inutea - ~ • • hundred ud ninety-nine li•e• w ■■ lost. The ship was on its way from Australia to the lew Guinea war front, and had no wounded aboard. It was • ta · ing doctors and nurses to lew Guinea. Today Australian Pri ■e Minister Curtin stated: 'The attack bore all the marks of ~antonness and deliberation.• And he added that the atrocity was just another indication of the savagery of the FAi- f.aRt, 11 :~emy. Today President iooseYelt bestowed a Congreaaional Medal of Honor, and never was one better deaerYed. At the White Roue, the President placed the ribbon ot our highest decoration around the neck ot Captain Joe roaa of the Marine ■ - A■erica•a luaber One ace of the air. In the South Pacific he ahot down twent7-aix Japanese planes, which equalled the record of Captain 14die Rickenbacker in the last war,aad WIAtslt set• n~w individual ■ ark for thia war. 1i:xt7•fi:Ye .., n-veat.,- ol \lae ■, ◄ nd 1 ■ t•••J J7 leoller•p. 11111 I II I lo, I i i 1111 to •• 1.,. I iAp I • •• • • • • • • • -- e--. "--•"-- · ~ =~ ✓a f f - . n-;_;;;; of the diazy}ii♦ --9( or which,. beca■e fa■ou1 in the South Pacific. Dizzy is right - it wa~fy-a,.,J,., enoraous dive.!/f/Joe Foss was flying at twenty-nine thousand feet, way up there iaxiaa near the stratosphere, ross - 2 -- went Joe Foae, bot in a different wa7. Be di•ed to the three thousand foot level, a drop of twent7-eix thouaand feet, fi•e miles. Why? Because down there he spotted two a l , - ~ ~ ,/,.k Jap torpedo planes. -11:ia~roarlng power-dive ot ti•• perpendicular ■ iles, ftal -aN ii..-'• &Bi ;line I, I i i be jneled off and;r=c;.:;:f;tt, ~.~ ••• ee.tie• nDo\he,._ This he did before the Jap that he ~ i ~ ~ • ~ i ~ f 0 or a cra■h into the Ha. J.::t-- AJoe Fo••~ in his tremendous dive, had beaten the fallin1 --~ . Jap in the ti•• aile drop)\• second• to spare, lllf enough ti■e to •~~~:3£;Q• ~~-,,.. ~ ~-t:£:.e ~~~ ~~ .... !Ila\ was:....tlnJ -eo1 t ef ttl1ag whielt w1a t.h .. Geas•••eionel Meael fer lee Fe•• of Sien falls, 8oY4& DIAIIOID§ At Melbourne, Australia, today three aen were acquitted in a case that revealed a glaring epiaode of - - a . , ~ aystery and ■elodraaaA- -~affair of tteasure, a fabulo• board of dia ■ onda, - - - - - - - lillli NJ aalf •Wl!li V 111 tli al:Cilllilll. In March of laat year, the Jap• were storaing into Java, and the Dutch were evacuating - getting out what they could. The letherlanders had quantities of ~ diaaonda in Java - Dutch and diaaonds go together. one,c4 I ~ of a ■illion and a half d o l l a ~ pach4 hastily, a gleaming neap of dia■ onda poured into a sugar can. That was the treasure chest - an eapty tin - · can that was lying ailound. This wealth of diaaonds was taken aboa~d a plane, and flown out, bound for Auatralia. Off the north coast of the island continent, the treasure plane was attacked by Jap Zeros, and was riddled with bullets. Four passengers in it were killed, R.JAIOHD~. 2 ~ and the~pilot was hit aix tiaes. Wounded aa he was, he aanaged to Be retrieved •a~• a crash landing on a reaote beach. ~~~-~ the trea s ure/\ but felt unable to carry i t - u be 1n•l•i walking hie way out. So he buried the sugar can full of dift ■ onda in the sand along the beach - taking careful note of landaarks that would enable hi ■ to find it againl[!he Dutch pilot finally got to . . ciYili1ation, told hi• story, recovered troa hi• wounda, and went back to get the diaaonda. Be found the place where he had buried tbea~and dug. The treasure waa not there, the diamonds had disappeared. What had happen•~? Who ha d got them? Two months later a man naaed Palmer walked into an army recruiting station in the Australian town of Perth, and showed the officials a tin can,••• i~ aac full of diamonds - it wa ~ the sugar can trea ~ ure which the Dutch pilot had buried. p almer said he had found it on a north Australian beach - the aaae place where the Dutch pilot had hidden it. So far so good, but when the canful of diaaond• ,..J ~~~ was exaained and checked,Anot a~l the precioua atones were- there, not the k whole aillion and a halt dollars I worth. · It was claiaed that ■ore than eightJ thouaand dollar• of diaaonda were ai1sing. Whereupon an accuaation of theft waa 1 . . aade a1at••* - againat Palaer, with other .a.k . . aen iaplicated. TheJ were tried, and . toda7 were acquitted - found not guilty. All of which leaves a lingering eleaent of ayatery in the war draaa of diaaonda. B,A,l, - Last night the bombers of the R.A.F. raided far and wide into Germany agiin, striking at industrial - areas: but 1 the news today concentrates on the catastrophic event of the night before - the eaashin1 · -IL, j great d~•• in the Ruhr Valley. lord fro■ within Ger■ allJ indicates that the tloOd• fro• the broken daaa have been the great.st diaaster inaid•-"' la1iland ain the war began. A nuaber or cities were isolated or inundated by the surge ot the water,a, and thouaanda ot - - ~ .t.tr · d\: .-.~~-14-C., ~ - lives were lostA11'Aerial reconnaissance by the R.A.r. reveals that the aillions washed out bridges, power plants and pumping atationa, and turned huge areas into shallow lakes. And today the flood was still not over; was still causing daaage. One result of the smashing of the dams was the bringing out of a new war hero for Br~tain - Wing Commander G.P.Gibson, who commanded the assault~ ~• are told the al■ost inc~edible fact that liq Co ■ aander Gibson has be hundred and aevent7-two air raids. The general that about thirt7 are all that a pilot can atand. After thirt7 aortiea . 1 tighter ~ " - fl t1lt@t or boaber raid•A the pilot I a nerYea can take 1 ~ ,._ ,.. ,, • ao longer. That ,a the supposition - but here we have a veteran ot a hundred and leYenty-two sortie• - • 7001 JT~ a ■ iLing, affable. You'd think he •ould have had eaough of danger . . and desperation, but here is what ling eoa■ander Gibaon did during the attack on the daaa. He leJ hia flight of Lancaster bombers, and was the first to drop the giant lanJ mines on the barrier holding back the water. Then he stuck around in the tiick of heavy anti-aircraft ' fire, swoopin g down at the guns and raking the ■ with bullets - to throw the Nazi marksmen off their aia, while the other Lancasters caae over and hurled their land ■ inea on the da■ - blasting the barrier of concrete, until the giant pressure ot the water broke throqh. The British Government today diaclo ed the magnitude of British losses during the fighting in Africa - they have been heavy. The figure is two hundred and twenty thousand men killed, wounded, ■ isaing or captured - that aany in Africa in the course of nearly three years. The Axis losses have been nearly fo · ,r times •• sreat; aore than eight hundred thousand; largely in the fora of prisoners - half a ■ illion Ital~ans a~ Germana captured. '1iapatcb juat in fro■ General Eisenhower states that two hundred thousand were taken in Tunisia. .. ?WIJBIGBX !ight years ago, a gilded youth of a wealthy faaily perpetrated a headline hoax. Be want•• to be a playwright, and tried the fantastic t.o further hi1 • a■bition. Today's newa about hi ■ is Fd&f different, no hoax, no fanta1y - Just the atark dra ■a of war. Caleb Milne, 4th, of a Philadelphia textile faaily, left college aspiring to becoae a faaou1 writer ...,,, J ~ 6'.~ of play1. Be had diacourage ■ents,~ in lineteen Thirty-fi•e he di1appeared. The next day hi• grandfather, Caleb Milne, Jr. of Philadelphia, received a ranso■ note deaanding twenty thousand dollars for the return of Caleb Milne, 4th. Then later, the youth was found bound and gagged in a ditch near lew Brunswick, New Jersey. Nothing of which fooled the poljce. They, from the start, thought it was a hoax - and later Caleb Milne, 4th, ar . itted that he had sent ~ ~ { l _ p - ~ ransoa note. ...., got a lot of publicity, 1 ii t, he looking for. A A ~_.-,1,zx the was lleAT•lli!T - 2 Years went by, and 1 after the war caaeJ Caleb Milne~ 4th, enlisted in the Aaerican Field Service- aabulance work. And today the story is reYealed of bow, a1 the Tunisian war approached the cloee, the one-tlae '- perpetrator of a faaoua hoaz, ••• under heavy tire at the battlefront. Be waa helping top.lace two wounded rrench aoldier1 on a atretcher .when a Geraan aortar ahell burat nearby, and Caleb Milne, 4th, was killed. Bil her:r.:8~~~1,' u that old uduppini • had been a & a u • . ~ t • WINDSOR ------- Today both President Roosevelt and Prime jinister Winston Churchill had conferences with the Duke of Windsor. Churchill had lunch with the la■k■ Duke and Duchess at the British E■bassy in Washington, ,and then took the ■ to the White Bouse for a talk with the president -- who conferred with the Duke for an hour. On what subject? President Roosevelt at~ted this afternoon that he and the former Edward the Eighth discussed questiona connected with the bringing ot thousands ot farm laborers into this country from Jaaaica and the Baha■ as -- the Duke being Governor ot the Bahamas. President Roosevelt added that his talks with Prime inister Churchill are not yet complete, but are coming alon~ in satisfactory fashion -- war planning for victory. The Rual Plan lost out in the Rouse of • !epre1entotive1 a~ain todJy - - for the third time. Following the Pre ident•1 t ■ plied threat to veto the bill for akip-a-y ar, if it pa11ed. Two hundr & nd to to one hundred and ninety-tour. The Republican• tu~ and the Deaocrata So tar th third ti ■• th• lual Plan baa been defeated in the Hou••• each tiae by a tiny ■ argin. The Congr•••••n favor a oompro ■ i•• of aeventy-tive per cent forgiven•••· The Senate has pa11ed the Ru ■ l Plan for oue hundred per cent forgiven•••· And now a Joint committee will try to draft a bill agreeable to both houses. ----------- Here's the latest:- Secretary !ekes says the coal strike must be solved by the War Labor Board! Now Hugh. LTP.429.095.040.pdf LTP.429.095.041.pdf LTP.429.095.042.pdf LTP.429.095.043.pdf LTP.429.095.044.pdf LTP.429.095.045.pdf LTP.429.095.046.pdf LTP.429.095.047.pdf LTP.429.095.048.pdf LTP.429.095.049.pdf LTP.429.095.050.pdf LTP.429.095.051.pdf LTP.429.095.052.pdf LTP.429.095.053.pdf LTP.429.095.054.pdf LTP.429.095.055.pdf LTP.429.095.056.pdf LTP.429.095.057.pdf LTP.429.095.058.pdf LTP.429.095.059.pdf