7~~ ~~~~ an~tb~" airfield Jon 1--~ a::::; ~Lai:d=:d- =T: e is on the verge crf falling into the hands of the aarines. The Fifth l ■ai Amphibious Corps rushed the ~ ~--t;,,t..~~ defenses in he face of a withering enemy fire~/In the .1, ~ ~~ ~ first forty-seven hours of th~ fighting,-\ which lasted day and night, we lost three-thousand, six-hundred-and- fifty men killed, wounded and missing. The marines bad to charge up an incline which enabled the Japanese gun• t literally to mow the■ down. T ~ o n s attacked that ~ airdrome, attacked in the face of the moat ~-k) A 1avage resistance encountered anywherX.in the Pacifi~ -t1UJ ,tti1ft:u~ I-t -ian :hna c■■x■ even ■ ore ,to1 ■ lda~l• than the fighting at Tarawa and Pelileu. So says Admiral li■itz in bis report. However, the casualties include coaparatively few killed. A~out five out of every six ~ were men wounded,~ not too severely to be evacuated~ .,A T ~ he Japanese tried to filter through the lin /\ ea PACIFIC - 2 --- OS ~ i • the dark hours 1 <A Tuesday night., and Wednesday morning. But they diun~t get fa"r_J The ■arinee caagitt = ihe■=:a:Jllt diapoa7of thea.quickl7: n . t l ~ e marines have cut the Jap•e•• force■ .A t r , \ . ~ . . ) in twoA separate battles are raging in the northern and southern parts of the island, In both actions, sa71 limitz, the aarines are moving forward yard b7 yard agiinat he e vy machine gun fire, aortars, small aras rockets. The ■ any atrong points which confront our • forces in all areas are being reduced by individual troop action. Aa our leathernecks puah forward, they have to ~ ~ ~ W\ P ass ~ z .. :;e:-t~ in caveaJ and ~ill boxes. A )(.. , /\ . ~~~ - - t.:P---:mtt~ are mopp ine_\the■ up, N ~ t4-n8 them with flame throwers/ and blowing the• out with taaad grenades. At the southern creeping up the slopes tiR of the island, the o*olcano literally Yanks are yard by yard • .,._==g:a::i~~-,he,=e~.:::t:Od.:a7.:::::U'araged-=a little mere thia &.=h-u-&d--Ia.ri~~~ PACIFIC - 3 .... -- -- But - and here is news we don't 1·t t . 1 e o pass on - the Japanese commander hasn't yet thrown . into the battle hi• main forces, which are on the northern end of that eight square mile Jap Gi~raltar. The Navy Department at Washington today announced that our submarines in the Pacific, have bagged more pre7, sinking an eneay escort carrier, a large converted cruiser, a deat~oyer, and twenty-two aercbant v111ela. The ■erchant vessels included two transport•, three cargo transports, and seventeen cargo shipa. In fact, · our sub ■ arines out there are now sinking ■ ore than two enemy ships per day • . The Tokyo radio reported more raids by B-29• last night and today. Six raids this morning, and four this afternoon. Evidently reconnaissance flights. Admiral Nimitz tonight announces that he baa landed the Third Biviaion of United State• Marines. J ~ • · /\~as gone into action to help the aen of the fourth and Fifth 1 on Iwo. Another cabinet shake-up in Japah; the second ' ,, ' .itbta eleven d aye. ~-4ff=l~ lbe llikado and hia ~T.,t: I) A-fl ~ . ~ c.- Q ~ ~ people~re jittery. The victories of MacArthur-=. and li ■ itz---=-•• are already having their repercussions in the polities of Die lippon. Sava g e fightin g continues both on and in Manila. On the island fortress, the desperate Japs are atill holding out in tunnels and cavee, with our people mopping them up. The lips have blocked several of the entrances to the underground system in Corregidor, so the Yanks have to poke through ruins and rubble to find the openings in order to thTuat in their flaae throwers. Late this evening lacArthu~ announced that only a few J,pe reaain in the caves and tunnels of CorrigidoJ Seventeen hundred of them have been buried and the count ia incoaplete. In Uanila, the remnants of the garrieon are concentrated in ~ o t ~ ~~.::J--1ess than one-tenth /\ of a square mile. n -- ~ But the fewer they becoae, the fiercer their resistance. Major General Griswold commander of the Fourteenth Corps, said today:-•There PHILIPPINES -2- is no easy way to end it - •• just go in fighting and till every last one of the ■.• The General went on to say that the Jap ia a tough fighter everywhere, but particularly when he is behind reinforced concrete. Meanwhile the enemy radio goes on broadcaating aeek•r•• claims of successful Japanese operations. For instance, a lazi spokesman in Berlin said that the Japanese were counter-attacking north and south of Manila, and gaining ground. Berlin also announces that Japanese undersea raiders had attacked Aaerican ahippin in Lingayen Gulf, sinking an aircraft carrier, a cruiser. and a destroyer. Tokyo claims to have sunk an Aaerican cruiser, and two sub ■ arinee, with damage to two ■ore of our submarines. Am e rican w a r planes taking off from land basea in the Philip p ines today sank or daaaged three more Japanese vessels along the coast of China and Indo- China. Heavy Liberator bombers kept up their daily relentless pounding of Jap defenses on the island ot Formosa. A later dispatch from MacArthur'• headquarter• ~ brings word that hia taan have disposed of the la1t A I \ remaining Jape on the Bataan Peninsula. Thi• after a cam p aig, that lasted only twenty-four daya. ~ RUSSIA ~------- The news from the Eastern front indicates that the next big Ger ma n city ~ ~ ~ a n z i g . l e - Soviet shock troo p s a re only forty ~ w f d today Stalin announced th a t the Second White R ussian Army had captured Czersk (Tchershk), s ! z ~ s ~ n ~ .,,._:. u,j:v, d- rail••J• a nd highwa~ in what used to be the Polish te.;_ Corridor. The important part of it is that l:t gives ~ larshal Rokossovsky control of eighteen miles of the trunk r a ilroad from Berlin to Stettin to Danzig. Actually, the Second White hussian Army is at some 4-~'4-C..IR«J points only ele~en miles away from the frontier -' the A territory of Danzig. " - ~ n In Latvia, one of the Baltic armies of the Soviet (/W#) is rene in g its big sc a le att a cks on the Ge r m a n lines around Libau. - 0 Another Red Army has carved itself a new bridgehe d only sixteen miles from the border of UW! - 2 Czechoslov a kia. , IC. . ~~ outflank and surround the German garrison in one of the biggest industrial centers of Czechoslovakia. 0 St a lin ha thrown huge reinforcements into the ■ arch on Ber l in. Iuestrin is besieged, also Frankfurt-o the-Oder, and t he First White Russian Army has acquired a new brid g ehead on the west bank of the Oder at 11-:i.1tz, only thirty-three miles from Berlin. The First Army of the Ukraine is fighting the Nazis in the forest ¥ i g h t ailes from Guben, another industrial city ~ - and fortress protecting the capital/\The left wing of the First Army of the Ukraine is approachini closer and closer to Dresdenwi:Jl.the ~ermans adait that the 'A la Russians have made fresh advances over night, ~~ s t i t t laces The s1·ege of Brelau cap uring several mpor an P A A tlt- ~ ~ -1.k . th . g of o-entinae,: as furiously as ever, I\ 1 ew1se e s1e e Ioenigsberg in East Prussia. lazi - ~~ In Brandenburg, a Red Army has reached the ~ /\ r'txc..e.-~ • ., defense line elong the River Reisse. And late ~ afternoon Moscow announced the capture of Pri'ibua, ~ i f t 7 - t i • • ailea ••Bl" flSTEBU:lHUII - . On the Westem Front, t:u:e-..n err GellTJ''l.i: Patton's ThirdAfurnished the most exciting news today. eight They advanced fi••xntxaxkaif ■ iles further into the ~ loaelle Valley. They are inaide Saarburg, and less than ll ~ seven ailes asa, froa Trier Along a fifty-fiYe ail• front, the Third Aray atoraed or occupied twenty or acre German towns. Until toda7, the lazi resistance in that valley was reported as being stiffer, but today it crumbled in the face of the fury with which Patton'• ■en plunged ahead. They ar~ advancing along a ten mile front, and i•••x*k this afternoon were a little ■ ore than three miles sss, fro ■ the confluence of the Saar and the Moselle R i v e r a . ~ helped considerably ) 1f I by strong support from the air. Patton.a araor is now tearing on with something like the speed with which he aJ crossed Fr a nce last year. There is a news blackout on A. the movement of his advance guards. In today's air war news, the most interesting ite ■ tells of an attack on Hitler's aountain hideout, taken a tler'a remote Bavarian eyrie. Major John L. Beck of Pos Falls, Idaho, led eight Thunderbol s that fired rockets and aachine gunned the railroad yard A at Berchteagaden. They also flew over the neighborin& But the main attack by our planes in was against the city of luremburg, shrine sacred in the history of the Nazi Party. The war factories and railroad yards of Nuremburg were still blazing from the treaendous attack of yesterday when today our Flying Fortresses dropped another three thousand tons. The Army court martial in Paris has already sentenced to prison · a±:,;-l, two hundred men of the /{ .-ll-0~ Seven Hundred and Sixteenth Railway battalion, for taking army goods to sell the11 on the bla ct market. Major Walter Marlin of Los Angeles, commander of the battalion, was on trial himself today. An explanation of the scandal was offered by a witness, the executive officer of the Second Military Railway Service. Marlin himself, said the witness, used to be a ltco■otive e n g i n e e ~ ~ ~ Iv Ua.aha,l e.1n• a.n~--. Co11auquea~ had-n•t -,P ' T - 7\. "'4t.tf enough experience to handle a whale battalion • .cf ■ •D";.. The witness went on to say that American railway executives, in order to make up military battalions, would choose the m en they could most e~sily spare r at her than the best men. Meanwhile, at A~ .~ns, two former p rime Ministers of Greece and a lot of other cabinet minister• were in the dock, accused of having collaborated with the enemy. There were twenty-five f thea altogether. A story from London today indicates that Prime Minister Churchill will run into a storm of criticism over the results of the Yalta Conference. Not only Labor members of Parliament, but also Conservatives, are indignant over the new partition of Poland. ze-te t'r? "'liz~t' · !Ilia P-oAd~~is sure be put. title fighting Ptlaw lini•twz on hi• ■ ettle •hen he artses ia the Be~•o,uwx• !tlesd11 1 to d iscne• 1bat be dill at !alts. ie::::ta::ahtts. ~i hie beet when he ie pugnaeious, and this ti ■ e h• c-ePt»e.inly ri1.l have amp · le cause to put on--h-i:-8-4'-i-g-hting• There was a preliminary skirmish tn the Bou•~ ~ t.f • t· h today~ Conserv ti ve member raised the ques 10n ow A the govern ~ ent could reconcile the treatment of Poland with the Atlantic Charter. Ur. Churchill replied, the Atlantic Charter a s a guide,not a rule. Foreifn Se r ta 1 · Anthony Eden took tle brunt £Q M MQ!§_ - 2 of the criticism today. One o f the things h e told the Bouse wa th t the Briti s h and French are no w discussing wh at he called, ~an arran ement." Apparently this arrange m ent is in the nature of a permanent alliance, but Eden s a id that it was not like the Anglo-French union ~hich Churchill proposed in Nineteen Forty, just before France collapsed. mL if ~ ~ T h e Senate Committee on Military Affairs today was drawing up its own version of the work-n r flght bill. It i• auch stiffer than the May-Bailey Act paeeea by the Bouse. For the Senators have slipped in a provision that anybod7 who fails to obey will be liable to a . ten thousand dollar fine or one year's i ■prisonment, ~ ~ d . or both. lo me ■ber of the Committee ••• at=a~ concerned /\ -,71 over the fact that this bill wi11 force people to Join a union whether they 1 ike it or not/ H aa■y plceu• .. ' &nd if they object to t.be pelat et decli11ia1;. they can be 1 sent to jail. The Senate Committee ~lso approfed the Tyding• Amendment, according to which essential farm worker• e-t "- But if they leave tue~r job o n ~ far~ A _,, can be def erred. without the permission of the Draft Board, they can be immediately inducted. A Co necticut jud g e administered a severe blow to the big Circus tod a y. It w as an aftermath of the frantic fire at Hartford last July when a hundred and sixty-ei g ht people perished. A vice-president, the general mana g er an d four employees of Ringling Brothers- Barnum and Bailey, were charged with involuntary manslaughter. In order to avoid a long trial, their lawyer h a d a dvised them to decline to plead and throw theaselves on the mercy of the court. The mercy of the court wa s expressed in substantial jail sentences. Vice - President James A. Hale 1 wae condemned to one to five ye a rs in rison; the general manager and the chief canvassman, t w o to seven years each; the rolling stock superintenden t got six months; the chief electrician and a seat man o ne year. The s~ n ten c es provided a severe shock for the circusmen Fnd th i r a to rn e y. The la wu Jer p r e v a iled upon the court to a l lo the men time to get the circus in shape for the coming season, and start it on the road. There will be baseball this year_ not quite as u1ual, but still a full schedule. This was arranged after a conference between the heads of the aajor leagues and the Federal Transportation Director, J. Monroe Johnson. The clubs, on their own initiative, cancelled all exhibition games except at Army and Navy camps, and·tbat only on condition that the Army and Navy must provide the transportation. The clubs will travel with fewer players than usual. Schedules will be rearranged so as to call for a ■ inimu■ of r a ilroad travel.·The World Series will be played if transportation and war conditions at the time permit. The Transportation Director made it clear today that the transportation situation this ye a r is quite critical. But he figures·tnat twenty thousand fans in grandstand s ea ts may me a n severs ~ thousand fewer travel er a in railro d Jnd ~ b ~ ~~ . s~s:,_P_a_t_s.·----•••••••■ Flood waters in Arkansas ' Mississippi and Alabaaa. Rains have been falling heavily over most of the South. Many roads in Arkansas are already under water and all the waters in the state are rising rapidly. The Pearl aiver in Mississippi is above flood stage by several feet and still rising. Red Cross wprkera are already on the job at Jacksob, Mississip;i.t-o ' the Tombigbee is fourteen fe g t above flood stage at one point. . mill Officials of the War Manpower Commiss i on b~• tiiti~ctl~ hazy ove the question of how they are going to enforce tJ°curfew-at-midnight order. They say they~ ~ been unable to learn how War Mobilizer Byrne• expects them to do it. Oae of t~aaS.aid~:.!.All we know ia that the curfew bell rings next Monday night, but nobody seems to know exactly for whom the bell tolls.• ~i■e~ ae~r~iJ:' ~ :4 ,, i 1 . peeple~e ;atertaioment induetry ha¥e pre■ieea u bave P•••ieed to belp.